Explaining the Relevance of Court Decisions to Laymen

Authors:
Gwen R. Wildeboer;Michel C. A. Klein;Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek
Affiliations:
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands;Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands;Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In the context of intelligent disclosure of case law, we report on our findings with respect to the presentation of relevant court decisions back to the laymen users. For this presentation we first localize the relevant legal concepts in the cases using shallow NLP techniques. Hereafter we investigated the use of techniques from the field of recommender systems, i.e. keyword style explanation and influence style explanation, to present the cases to the user in an understandable way. In order to find out if we succeeded in that respect, we conducted a small user satisfaction research. It shows promising results, and gives us some directions for future research.