Issue spotting in legal cases

  • Authors:
  • Barbara Cuthill;Robert McCartney

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '93 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

For any system that uses previous experience to solve problems in new situations, it is necessary to identify the features in the situation that should match features in the previous cases through some process of situation analysis. In this paper, we examine as issue spotting; in particular, we present how issues spotting is implemented in CHASER, a legal reasoning system that works in the domain of tort law.The approach presented here is a compromise between generality and efficiency, and is applicable to a range of problems and domains outside of legal reasoning. In particular, it presents a principled way to use multiple cases for a single problem by exploiting the inherent structure present in many domains.