|
iDEA: Drexel E-repository and Archives >
Drexel Academic Community >
College of Information Science and Technology >
Faculty Research and Publications (IST) >
On legal texts and cases
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/1860/2051
|
| Title: | On legal texts and cases |
| Authors: | Weber, Rosina O.
Krieger, Rua Maestro Aldo
Martins, Alejandro
Barcia, Ricardo Miranda |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | AAAI Press |
| Citation: | Textual Case-Based Reasoning: Papers from the 1998 Workshop, Technical Report WS-98-12: pp. 40-50. |
| Abstract: | The search employed by judicial
professionals when seeking for past similar
legal decisions is known as jurisprudence
research. Humans employ analogical
reasoning when comparing a given actual
situation with past decisions, noting the
affinities between them. In the process of
being reminded of a similar situation when
faced to a new one, Case-Based Reasoning
(CBR) systems simulate analogical
reasoning. Judicial professionals have two
sources of jurisprudence research: books
and database systems. The search in books
is time-consuming and imprecise due to the
limitations of humans' memory. Available
text database systems do not guarantee the
retrieval of useful documents. PRUDENTIA is
the case-based reasoner tailored to the
Brazilian system that confers efficiency to
jurisprudence research. Judicial cases are
described with natural language text,
comprising a collection of textual
documents. These texts are the experiences
that require case engineering to be modeled
in a structured representation of cases. We
have developed an automatic means of
performing the case engineering, that is,
converting legal texts into structured
representation of cases. Examples of
PRUDENTIA demonstrate the power of
similarity-based retrieval in a textual CBR
system against text database applications
improving the usefulness of the documents
retrieved. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/2051 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Research and Publications (IST)
|
Items in iDEA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|
www.drexel.edu
