Conception of cognitive interfaces for legal knowledge: evolution of the JURISQUE project on the risks of avalanches

ABSTRACT

This work falls within the field of Model-Based Legal Information Retrieval. We were brought to conceive new types of interfaces after having evaluated a legal database available on the Internet. Although legally validated, this legal database JURISQUE-1 was considered as unsuitable to the expertise's necessities of mountains' professionals (whether legal practitioners or not) working on practical issues of responsibility in cases of avalanches. We thus proposed to develop cognitive interfaces which have the peculiarity to integrate a model of the field into the management of various resources (software packages or knowledge) and ensure that they communicate with one another.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.0 General
          Subjects: Cognitive simulation

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

General Terms:
Design, Performance, Theory