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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 07
IRList Digest Wednesday, 15 April 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 7
Today's Topics:
Addresses - Richardson at UCLA (and query on expert systems bboards)
Announcement - Computational Linguistics Post - U. Manchester
Seminar - Tailoring Object Descriptions to User's Expertise
Announcement - 1st Intl Conf on AI & Law (includes IR talks!)
News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 87 16:12 PST
From: IBQ1JVR@UCLAMVS
Subject: SIG IR list
Would you kindly add me to the SIG IR list?
And if you are aware of other BBS on expert systems
I'd appreciate knowing about them too.
John Richardson, Associate Professor
UCLA GSLIS
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
[Note: AI in general is covered by AIList which has daily messages and
can be requested from ailist-request@sri-stripe.arpa while natural
language and knowledge representation is covered by less frequent
digests sent from nl-kr-request@cs.rochester.edu - Ed]
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 87 00:49:21 est
From: vtcs1::in% <<@wiscvm.wisc.edu:EMAILDEV@ukacrl.bitnet>>
Subject: COMP LING POST AT UMIST
Dear colleague,
I would be grateful if you could bring this advertisement to the attention
of your colleagues.
Many thanks,
John McNaught
Lecturer
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UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(UMIST)
Department of Language and Linguistics
and Centre for Computational Linguistics
SENIOR LECTURER
An opportunity exists for an experienced scholar to take a
leading role in the Centre's modest undergraduate and thriving
post-graduate and research activities. There are numerous
research personnel engaged on a variety of well-funded
multilingual applications projects. Excellent computing
facilities are available. Scope for new initiatives in current
and new areas of research is wide.
The successful candidate will have an excellent teaching and
research record, the ability to organise and lead project teams,
and be committed to furthering the specialised orientation of the
Centre.
Commencing salary will be on the scale: 14,870 - 18,625 (pounds
sterling) per annum (under review).
Requests for application forms and further particulars, quoting
reference LL/1, should be sent to the Registrar, UMIST, PO Box
88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK.
It is intended to appoint for October 1987, therefore early
application is advisable. UMIST is an equal opportunities
employer.
Technical information may be obtained from John McNaught at:
e-mail: jck%umist.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa
seismo,mcvax!ukc!uk.ac.umist!jck (uucp)
telephone: +44-61-236-3311 extension 2333
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 87 16:04:50 EST
From: patricia@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: Seminar - Tailoring Object Descriptions to a Users Level of Expertise
[forwarded from NL-KR Digest (3/18/87 16:28:00) Volume 2 Number 16]
SEMINAR
Monday March 23, 1987
11th Floor Lounge
10:30 am
Speaker
Cecile L. Paris
Columbia University
Topic
Tailoring Object Descriptions to a Users Level of Expertise
A question answering program that provides access to a large amount of data
will be most useful if it can tailor its answers to each individual user. In
particular, a users level of knowledge about the domain of discourse is an
important factor in this tailoring if the answer provided is to be both
informative and understandable to the user. In this research, we address the
issue of how the users domain knowledge, or the level of expertise, can affect
an answer. By studying texts we found that the users level of domain
knowledge affected the kind of information provided and not just the amount of
information, as was previously assumed. Depending on the users assumed domain
knowledge, a description can be either parts-oriented or process-oriented.
Thus the users level of expertise in a domain can guide a system in choosing
the appropriate facts from the knowledge base to include in an answer. We
propose two distinct descriptive strategies that can be used to generate texts
aimed at naive and expert users. Users are not necessarily truly expert or
fully naive however, but can be anywhere along a knowledge spectrum whose
extremes are naive and expert. In this work, we show how our generation
system, TAILOR, can use information about a users level of expertise to
combine several discourse strategies in a single text, choosing the most
appropriate at each point in the generation process, in order to generate
texts for users anywhere along the knowledge spectrum. TAILORs ability to
combine discourse strategies based on a user model allows for the generation
of a wider variety of texts and the most appropriate one for the user.
This research was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency
Refreshments will be served in the 11th Floor Lounge at 10:15
Wine and Cheese will be served in the 11th Floor Lounge at 5:00 p.m
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 87 19:17:29 est
From: vtcs1::in% <hafner@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu>
Subject: Conference on AI and Law - Program and Registration Info
The First
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by: The Center for Law and Computer Science
Northeastern University
In Co-operation with ACM SIGART
Schedule of Activities:
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Wednesday, May 27
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Tutorials
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (see list below)
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Welcoming Reception - NU Faculty Center
Thursday and Friday, May 28-29
8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Research Presentations (continued)
Thursday evening, May 28 - 7:00 p.m. - Gala Banquet at the Colonnade Hotel
Tutorials:
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A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (For Lawyers)." Edwina L. Rissland,
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, will
present the fundamentals of AI from the perspective of a legal expert.
B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities and Challenges."
Donald H. Berman, Richardson Professor of Law, and Carole D. Hafner,
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University, will
survey the past accomplishments and current goals of research in AI and Law.
Panels:
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"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal System." Moderated by Cary
G. deBessonet, Director of the Law and Artificial Intelligence Project,
Louisiana State Law Institute.
"Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational Approaches."
Moderated by L. Thorne McCarty, Professor of Computer Science and Law, Rutgers
University.
List of Research Presentations: (final schedule is not yet determined)
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"Expert Systems in Law: The Datalex Project"
Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray, Alan L. Tyree
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
"The Application of Expert Systems Technology to Case-Based Law"
J.C. Smith, Cal Deedman
Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, CANADA
"Legal Reasoning in 3-D"
Marvin Belzer
Advanced Computational Methods Center
University of Georgia, USA
"Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate Planning"
Dean A. Schlobohm, Donald A. Waterman
Moraga, California, USA
"Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and into the
Marketplace"
Richard E. Susskind
Ernst & Whinney
London, ENGLAND
"An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for the
Internal Revenue Service"
Gary Grady, Ramesh S. Patil
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System"
Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas, Gregory J. Crowe
Advanced Decision Systems
Mountain View, California USA
"Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law"
Judith P. Dick
Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
"A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning"
D. Peter O'Neill
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
"Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases"
Carole D. Hafner
The Center for Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts USA
"A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law"
Edwina L. Rissland Kevin D. Ashley
Department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts USA
"But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO"
Kevin D. Ashley, Edwina L. Rissland
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts USA
"A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information Retrieval"
Richard K. Belew
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Univ. of California
San Diego, California USA
"System = Program + Programmers + Law"
Naftaly H. Minsky, David Rozenshtein
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey USA
"A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System Project for Consultation
and Tutoring -- The LEX Project"
F. Haft, R.P. Jones, Th. Wetter
IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre
Heidelberg, WEST GERMANY
"Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text in the SPADES
System"
Gary Morris, Keith Taylor, Maury Harwood
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. USA
"Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption Analyst"
Keith Bellairs
Management Science Department, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
"Reasoning about `Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law
Steven Weiner
Somerville, Massachusetts USA
"Designing Text Retrieval Systems for `Conceptual Searching'"
Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law
Oslo, NORWAY
"Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with the Aid of
Logical Models"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
"Further Comments on McCarty's Semantics for Deontic Logic"
Andrew J.I. Jones
University of Oslo
Oslo, NORWAY
"Experiments Using Expert Systems Technology for Teaching Law: Special
Knowledge Representation Approaches in DEFAULT and EVAN"
Roger D. Purdy
School of Law, The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio USA
"OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for Defeasible Reasoning"
Thomas F. Gordon
FS-INFRE, GMD
Sankt Augustin, WEST GERMANY
"ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing Statutes"
Carlo Biogioli, Paola Mariana, Daniela Tiscornia
Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica
Florence, ITALY
"A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada"
David M. Sherman
Maintnix Services
Thornhill, Ontario CANADA
"Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal Reasoning"
Layman E. Allen, Charles S. Saxon
Law School, The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
"Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition in Contract Law:
A Process Model"
Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California USA
"Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law: A Formalism of
Supplementary Benefit Legislation"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen, M.J. Sergot
Department of Computing, Imperial College
London, ENGLAND
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Program Committee Conference Information
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L.Thorne McCarty, Chair Prof. Carole D. Hafner, Conference Chair
Donald H. Berman (617) 437-5116
Michael G. Dyer Ms. Rita Laffey, Registration
Anne v.d. L. Gardner (617) 437-3346
Edwina L. Rissland
Marek J. Sergot
Housing Information
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Special Conference Rates are available at the following hotels:
(Mention "Northeastern University Computers and Law Conference")
1. The Colonnade Hotel - $75 single/$95 double + tax ($8 parking)
120 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA (617) 424-7000
2. The Midtown Hotel - $58 single/$63 double + tax (includes free parking)
220 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA (617) 262-1000 or 1-800-343-1177
Both of these hotels are less than a 10-minute walk from the Conference.
Rooms have also been arranged at Boston University dormitories, a
20-minute walk from the conference, or a 10-minute bus ride and a 5-minute
walk. The rates are $29 single/$24 (per person) double. To reserve a
room in the dormitory, use the attached registration form.
SPACE IS LIMITED - RESERVE EARLY!!
____________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION FORM
Make checks payable to:
Name____________________________________ Northeastern University - ICAIL
Address_________________________________ Mail to:
________________________________________ The Center for Law and Computer Sci.
________________________________________ Northeastern University
________________________________________ Boston, MA 02115
Conference Registration Fee (does not include tutorial or banquet)
Regular Full-time Student Amt. Enclosed
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Received by April 20 $95 $55
Received after April 20 $135 $85 __________
Gala Banquest - May 28 ($40/person) Number of tickets __ __________
Tutorial Fee: ($50 with conference registration $100 otherwise) __________
Tutorial (select one):
__ A. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (For Lawyers)
__ B. Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opporunities
and Challenges
Dormitory Reservations:
Arrival Date: ______ Departure Date: _______ Number of Nights _____
Type of Room: Single__ Double __
If double, please indicate sex, and smoking/non-smoking, or give
name of pre-arranged room-mate __________________________________
Dormitory Fee ($29/night single, $24/night double) __________
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED __________
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