The integration of retrieval, reasoning and drafting for refugee law: a third generation legal knowledge based system

  • Authors:

  • John Yearwood;Andrew Stranieri

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia;School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '99 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We identify an argument to be the basic unit of reasoning of a system that supports the construction of arguments and drafting of determinations in refugee law. Collaboration with the Refugee Review Tribunal of Australia has led to the development of a framework for argument construction that includes over 200 generic arguments. However, these arguments may not encompass all arguments used in any particular case. The construction of non-generic arguments involves the integration of information retrieval within reasoning. This retrieval is passage based from a wide variety of text sources. The framework also acts as the illocutionary structure in a document drafting process. In conceptualising this system we have found it useful to propose a classification of knowledge based systems in law.