A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN COMPUTER-AIDED LEGAL ANALYSIS
A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN COMPUTER-AIDED LEGAL ANALYSIS
Understanding goal-based stories.
Understanding goal-based stories.
The applications of artificial intelligence to law: a survey of six current projects
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
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In the field of law, decisions in previous cases often play a significant role in the presentation and outcome of new cases. Lawyers are constantly recalling old cases to aid them in preparing their own briefs. How do lawyers remember cases? What are the features they use to organize and retrieve past decisions? How do lawyers learn which features are important? To address these Questions we are constructing a model of legal novices (i.e. first year law student) and the processes by which they learn contract law. Our model is embodied in a computer program called STARE (from the latin, stare decisis which refers to the principle of using past cases to decide current disputes). STARE will read descriptions of contractual situations and attempt to predict the decision based on its general commonsense knowledge of agreements, the previous cases stored in an episodic memory, and knowledge of some basic legal concepts.