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