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Source International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law archive
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Artificial intelligence and law table of contents
Oxford, England
Pages: 215 - 224  
Year of Publication: 1991
ISBN:0-89791-399-X
Authors
Graham Creenleaf  Senior Lecturer in Law, University of New South Wales
Andrew Mowbray  Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology, Sydney
Alan Tyree  Landerer Professor of Information Technology and Law, University of Sydney
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SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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H P Frei 'The Future of Information Systems', Seminar paper, CIRCIT, Melbourne, 1990.
 
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For example, DiskROM Australia uses the Innerview software which combines free text retrieval and hypertext techniques.
 
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For example, P Johnson and D Mead's STATUTE software (Softlaw, Canberra) provides hypertext access from terms which arise in an expert systems dialogue.
 
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See the papers by Tong et al, Hafner, Bing, Dick and Belew in Proc. Ist ICAIL 1987, and by Rose and Belew in Proc. 2nd ICAIL 1989
 
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See the papers presented at the 7th Colloquy on the use of computers in administration of justice - Integrated work stations in the legal sector and decision support systems, Council of 'Europe, Lisbon, 1988; see also J B ing 'The concept and design of integrated work stations for public administration', International Council for iT in Government Administration, 22nd Conference, Estoril, 1988
 
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G Vandenberghe 'Software oracles' in H W K Kaspersen and A Oskamp (Eds) Among Friends in Computers and Law Kluwer, Deventer, 1990; see also A W Koers et al 'Delphi revisited: The mythology of the lawyer's electronic workbench' in the same volume.
 
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A Oskamp and P van der Berg 'Legal expert systems and legal text retrieval systems: how about integration'?.' in Kaspersen and Oskamp, op cit
 
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DataLex is tile name used by tile authors for their joint research since 1985. The research presented here has been assisted by a grant from the Australian Research Council for the development of the Privacy Workstation. The Workstation software was designed by Andrew Mowbray and Graham Greenleaf, and implemented by Andrew Mowbray
 
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All of the programs are by Andrew Mowbray, except PANNDA by Alan Tyree.
 
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See J Bing 'Rules and representations' in P Blume (Ed) Nordic Studies in Information Technology and Law, Kluwer, Deventer, 1991.
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For examples, see C Stephen and H Schreiber 'CD-ROM, hypertext and the law', Australian Law Librarians Conference, 1989; E Wilson 'JUSTUS: A workstation for information retrieval in law' Informatica e Regolamentazioni Giuridiche, Rome 1988; D Painter 'Hyperlaw', Law Technology Centre & Bileta Newsletter, Vol 2 No 3, 1990.
 
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See the papers in the Hypertext Special Issue (papers presented at Hypertext '87) 31(7) Communications of the ACM, July 1988; E Barrett (Ed) The Society of Text - hypertext, hypermedia and the social construction of information, MIT Press 1989; R McAleese and C Green Hypertext- state of the art, Ablex, NJ, 1990.
 
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See G Greenleaf & A Mowbray The Privacy Workstation User Manual, April 1991.
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In DiskROM Australia's Corporations Law CD-ROM, a similar device is called an ACTRIX.
 
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The AIRS search language is a superset of that of STATUS, which it was originally developed to emulate. AiRS is used by LINK (the Lawyer's Information Network) to run ESTOPL (a case abstxact database), and by Monash Law Library for ALLI (Australian Legal Literature Index).
 
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See Jon Bing 'Performance of text retrieval systems: the curse of Boole' (1987) 79 Law Lib J.
 
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Boolean: AND, OR, NOT; Proximity: NEAR, for same paragraph; /n,m/, for specified word proximity; and WITHIN for within a named section of an article
 
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A Mowbray YSH Reference Manual, DataLex 1991
 
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Johnson and D Mead 'Legislative expert systems', (unpublished) Softlaw Corporation, Canberra, 1989; and 'Natural language - An appropriate knowledge representation scheme for legislative expert systems' (unpublished) Softlaw Corporation, Canberra, 1991. Their approach is implemented in their STATUTE software.
 
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p A Carlson 'Hypertext and intelligent interfaces for text retrieval', p71 in E Barrett (Ed) The Society of Text MIT Press 1989
 
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cf P A Carlson op cit p65
 
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See Oskamp and van der Berg op cit for a legal example.
 
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cf P A Carlson op cit p71
 
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See Taylor and Brown 'Supporting local office adjudication' and Taylor 'The DHSS local office demonstrator' (both papers Alvey DHSS Large Demonstrator Project, Dept. of Systems, University of Lancaster, 1988); A Berg et al 'Developing a KBS support system for handling social assistance', SAFAD Stockholm, 1988; and P Johnson and D Mead op cit
 
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R Stamper, book review, The Times 1988
 
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Susskind op cit p192
 
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grammar n. 1. the features of a language ... considered systematically as a whole, esp. with reference to their mutual contrasts and relations... 4. speech or writing in accordance with standard usage... 5. the elements of any science, art or subject...' (Macquarie Dictionary)
 
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C Stephen and H Schreiber 'CD ROM., Hypertext and the Law' op cit, quoting J Anderson 'Interactive multimedia: discovery by design' MacUser, March 1989 pgs97-8
 
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j Anderson ibid
 
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A van Dam op cit
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j Bing 'The text retrieval system as a convers{at}ion partner' 2 Yearbook of Law, Computers and Technology Butterworths (UK) 1986
 
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A Tyree op cit Chs 7 and 8
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j Bing ibid p47
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See A Galtung and D S Maesel 'Xcite' Proc. 2nd iCAiL 1989 p81, contrasing }corridor' and 'marketplace' models.
 
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See J Bing 'Performance of text retrieval systems: the curse of Boole' (1987) 79 Law Lib. J.. and L T McCarty 'Artificial intelligence and law: How to get there from here' Ratio Juris Vol 3 No 2 1990, p189.


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Andrew Mowbray: colleagues
Alan Tyree: colleagues