Computer Power and Legal Language The Use of Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Expert Systems in the Law

Name: Computer Power and Legal Language The Use of Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Expert Systems in the Law
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ISBN: 9780899303062

ISBN-10: 0899303064

ISBN-13: 9780899303062

Edition: 1988

Authors: Charles Walter

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Computer Power and Legal Language explores the central issues involved in the use of computers to conduct legal business. The contributors, all experts in their field, take as their starting point fundamental questions about the potential utility of computational models of linguistics, intelligence, and logic in the law: Is it possible to use computing to communicate in the manner legal experts do? Can legal language be represented in computational form? How does natural language serve as both a bridge and a major stumbling block for the communication of concepts--both among jurists and computers? In answering these and other questions regarding computers in the law, the contributors…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 12/14/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 410
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Introduction



Precise Meaning and Open Texture in Legal Writing and Reading



Elements of Legal Language



Toward a Model of Legal Argumentation



A Brief Introduction to Logic Programming and Its Applications in Law



Toward A Rule-Based Representation of Open Texture in Law



A Semantic Representation of the Pre-Contractual and Contractual Verbs of Exchange



The Discourse Properties of the Criminal Status



The Implementation of CCLIPS



Representing Contractual Situations



The Text Retrieval System as a Conversation Factor



Natural Language Interfaces



Semiotic Orders in Law



Distinguishing Legal Language-Types for Conceptual Retrieval



The Basic Logic for the Interpetation of Legal Texts



Castaneda Obstacles to the Development of Logic-Based Models of Legal Reasoning



The Relation between Language Studies and Expert Systems



An Experiment with Normalized Statutes in an Emycin Expert System



Exploring Computer-Aided Generation of Question for Normalizing Legal Rules



Expert System Shells and the Judicial Process: An Evaluation



Expert Systems for Law



Toward a Legal Expert System Shell: A Prolog Implementation



State of the Art of Computerization in Law Practice



Index