LESTER: using paradigm cases in a Quasi-Precedential legal domain

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LESTER: using paradigm cases in a Quasi-Precedential legal domain

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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law archive
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Artificial intelligence and law table of contents

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Pages: 87 - 92

Year of Publication: 1989

ISBN:0-89791-322-1

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K. A. Lambert	Department of Computer Science, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
M. H. Grunewald	School of Law, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

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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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ABSTRACT

We are developing LESTER (Legal Expert System for Termination of Employment Review), a case-based reasoning program to advise in the area of unjust discharge from employment under collective bargaining agreements. LESTER uses paradigm cases to reason in a legal domain that is not governed by a strong concept of precedent. This paper describes the domain and gives an overview of the current version of the program.

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