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Better language, better thought, better communication: the A-Hohfeld language for legal analysis

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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law archive
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law table of contents

College Park, Maryland, United States

Pages: 219 - 228

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-758-8

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Layman E. Allen	University Michigan
Charles S. Saxon	Eastern Michigan University

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IAAIL : Intl Asso for Artifical Intel & Law
UMIACS : U of MD Inst for Advanced Comp Studies
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	A&S91	Layman E. Allen , Charles S. Saxon, More IA needed in AI: interpretation assistance for coping with the problem of multiple structural interpretations, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, p.53-61, May 1991, Oxford, England [doi>10.1145/112646.112652]
	A&S93	Layman E. Allen , Charles S. Saxon, A-Hohfeld: a language for robust structural representation of knowledge in the legal domain to build interpretation-assistance expert systems, Deontic logic in computer science: normative system specification, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994
	A&S94	Allen, Layman E. and Saxon, Charles S., "Controlling Inadvertent Ambiguity in the Logical Structure of Legal Drafting by Means of the Prescribed Definitions of the A-Hohfeld Structural Language, "IX THEORIA No. 21 135-172 (1994). presented at the Istituto per la documentazione giuridica of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, TOWARD A GLOBAL EXPERT SYSTEM IN LAW: Selected Examples from Health and Environmental Law, Florence, Italy, December 1-3, 1993 (forthcoming as a chapter in a book of selected papers presented at the conference).
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	Layman E. Allen , Charles S. Saxon, Application of enriched deontic legal relations: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 7(a), pleadings, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, p.80-89, June 14-17, 1999, Oslo, Norway
	Layman E. Allen , Charles S. Saxon, Achieving fluency in modernized and formalized Hohfeld: puzzles and games for the LEGAL RELATIONS Language, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, p.19-28, June 30-July 03, 1997, Melbourne, Australia