From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!bts Newsgroups: net.general Title: request for information Article-I.D.: unc.3742 Posted: Tue Jul 27 06:29:50 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 08:14:58 1982 This is a request for information on AI or other clever computer applications to legal problems. Surely someone is doing such things, but very little seems to be published in the CS journals that I see. Here are some of the things I'd like to hear about: 1) Expert knowledge systems for legal reasoning. (I'm working on production systems these days, so I'd espe- cially like to hear about this topic.) 2) Special purpose languages for describing laws, e.g. the LEGOL language from the LSE. 3) Personal experiences with attempts to apply such sys- tems. Even second-hand anecdotes are acceptable. 4) Suggestions on where to look for more information. This one may be hard. Even in the IJCAI proceedings I have found only one paper, "An Intelligent Information System for Criminal Case Management in the Federal Courts", by Buchanan and Fennell, 1977. Please send everything to me by mail. If there are enough responses to warrent it, I will collect them for redistribu- tion in a couple of weeks. Thanks in advance. Bruce Smith, UNC-CH ...duke!unc!bts bts.unc @ UDEL-RELAY