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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 12
IRList Digest Saturday, 2 May 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 12
Today's Topics:
Announcement - Final Program for Conference on AI and Law
Software Psychology Society - Potomac Chapter 11(3), Spring 87
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Date: Fri, 1 May 87 21:04:37 edt
From: hafner@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
Subject: Conf. on AI and Law - Final Schedule
The First
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
May 27-29, 1987
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
Sponsored by:
The Center for Law and Computer Science,
Northeastern University
In Cooperation with ACM SIGART
Registration: Ms. Rita Laffey, (617) 437-3346
Information: Prof. Carole Hafner (617) 437-5116
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, May 27
8:30-12:30 Tutorials
A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (for lawyers)"
Prof. Edwina L. Rissland, University of Massachusetts and
Harvard Law School
B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities
and Challenges"
Profs. Donald H. Berman and Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern
University
2:00-2:30 Welcome; Opening Remarks.
2:30-4:00 Legal Expert Systems I
2:30 "Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and
into the Marketplace"
Richard E. Susskind
Ernst & Whinney, London, England
3:00 "Expert Systems in Law: The DataLex Project"
Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Alan L. Tyree
University of Sydney, Australia
3:30 "Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate
Planning"
Dean A. Schlobohm and Donald A. Waterman
Stanford University, The Rand Corporation
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems I
4:30 "Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System"
Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas and
Gregory J. Crowe
Advanced Decision Systems
5:00 "Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases"
Carole D. Hafner
Northeastern University
5:30 "Designing Text Retrieval Systems for Conceptual Searching"
Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law
6:30-8:30 Welcoming Reception, Northeastern U. Faculty Center
THURSDAY, May 28
9:00-10:30 Models of Legal Reasoning I
9:00 "A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning"
D. Peter O'Neil
Harvard Law School
9:30 "A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law"
Edwina L. Rissland and Kevin D. Ashley
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:00 "But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO"
Kevin D. Ashley and Edwina L. Rissland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems II
11:00 "A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System for
Consultation and Tutoring -- The LEX Project"
F. Haft, R.P. Jones and Th. Wetter
IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre, West Germany
11:30 "The Application of Expert Systems Technology to
Case-Based Law"
J.C. Smith and Cal Deedman
University of British Columbia
12:00 "Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal
Reasoning"
Layman E. Allen and Charles S. Saxon
The University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal
System"
Moderator: Cary G. DeBessonet, Law and Artificial Intelligence
Project, Louisiana State Law Institute
3:00-4:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems II
3:00 "Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law"
Judith P. Dick
University of Toronto
3:30 "A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information
Retrieval"
Richard K. Belew
University of California, San Diego
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Expert Systems and Tax Law
4:30 "A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada"
David M. Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
5:00 "An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for
the Internal Revenue Service"
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Gary Grady and Ramesh S. Patil
5:30 "Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text"
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Gary Morris, Keith Taylor and Maury Harwood
7:00 Reception and Banquet, The Colonnade Hote
Banquet Address: Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Prof. John McCarthy, Stanford University
FRIDAY, May 29
9:00-10:30 Applications of Deontic Logic
9:00 "Legal Reasoning in 3-D"
Marvin Belzer
University of Georgia
9:30 "On the Relationship Between Permission and Obligation"
Andrew J.I. Jones
University of Oslo, Norway
10:00 "System = Program + Users + Law"
Naftaly H. Minsky and David Rozenshtein
Rutgers University
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems III
11:00 "Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with
the Aid of Logical Models"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
11:30 "Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law:
A Formalisation of Supplementary Benefit Legislation"
T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen and
M.J. Sergot
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
12:00 "Knowledge Representation in DEFAULT: An Attempt to Classify
General Types of Knowledge Used by Legal Experts"
Roger D. Purdy
University of Akron
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational
Approaches
Moderator: Prof. L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University
3:00-4:00 Models of Legal Reasoning II
3:00 "Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition
in Contract Law: A Process Model"
Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer and Margot Flowers
University of California, Los Angeles
3:30 "Reasoning about 'Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law"
Steven S. Weiner
Harvard Law School, MIT
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-6:00 Legal Knowledge Representation
4:30 "OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for
Defeasible Reasoning"
Thomas F. Gordon
GMD, Sankt Augustin, West Germany
5:00 "ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing
Statutes"
Carlo Biagioli, Paola Mariani and Daniela Tiscornia
Instituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Florence, Italy
6:00 "Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption
Analyst"
Keith Bellairs
Computer Law Systems, Inc.
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 87 07:07:56 EST
From: Ben Shneiderman <ben@mimsy.umd.edu>
Subject: Software Psychology Society
Hello...here's the latest announcement of the Software Psychology Society
for the IRList readership....Ben
[Note: this has been slightly edited - Ed]
SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY
POTOMAC CHAPTER
VOLUME 11 NUMBER 3 SPRING 1987
Note: All meetings will be held at the George Washington University's Mar-
vin Center (800 21st Street, N.W.) between 10:00 AM and noon. Coffee and
doughnuts will be provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences.
Note: Send correspondence for this newsletter to: Software Psychology So-
ciety, c/o Skip Williamson, Knowledge Systems, Inc., 5705 Stillwell Rd.,
Rockville, MD 20851.
May 8 Room 413-414
ACTIVE OFFICE SYSTEMS:
STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING STRESS
Nathan Edelson, Center for Office Health & Productivity Enhancement
9913 Grayson Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901
Jerome Danoff, College of Allied Health Sciences
Howard University, Washington, DC 20059
One approach to dealing with stress in the computer workplace is to enable
users to engage in moderate levels of physical activity while simultaneous-
ly performing their regular computer tasks. Edelson has developed several
systems utilizing stationary bicycles, electric treadmills, and special
derivative exercises and posture devices, which will be illustrated and/or
demonstrated.
A recent research study demonstrated that subjects doing word processing in
an active office were able to maintain high levels of productivity while
reducing their levels of stress and body complaints. Five experienced typ-
ists worked for five two-hour sessions over a two week period. Performance
and subjective data will be presented.
June 12 Room 413-414
TRANSFER OF LEARNING IN THE REAL WORLD
Mary Beth Rosson, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
P. O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
As the function available in computing systems evolves, and as the range of
computer applications increases, the transfer of users' skill from one sys-
tem to another becomes critical. Unfortunately, the traditional psycholog-
ical studies of transfer of learning are of little assistance in under-
standing and facilitating transfer phenomena under the complex conditions
present in most real-world examples of transfer between computing systems.
Recent work has made some progress in characterizing these more complex si-
tuations, but has still relied largely on controlled studies conducted in a
laboratory environment. The present work took a more qualitative approach
in a study of real users making a transition between one or more procedural
formatting languages and a newer, object-oriented tag system. Users who
varied in their experience with the procedural languages were studied dur-
ing a week-long course modeled on the organization's standard computer edu-
cation modules; their performance on class exercises and their attitudes
about the system were monitored over the five days.
Our findings showed effects of user background on both the types of errors
made in using the new system, and attitudes expressed about the system:
users who were heavy users of the procedural systems tended to make more
errors on the exercises, and users who were more sophisticated users of the
procedural systems tended to become more negative about the tag system over
the five-day period. I will discuss the different components of knowledge
transfer implied by the error patterns, as well as the possible conse-
quences of the attitudinal effects observed.
July 10 Room 413-414
THE VALUE OF A USABILITY LABORATORY
IN THE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Michael F. DiAngelo, IBM Usability Laboratory
10401 Fernwood Road, Bethesda, MD 20817
This talk will cover the value/worth of usability in the application
development process, particularly as it applies to applications written for
use within the IBM business systems. Specifically, it will provide an
overview of how usability has been integrated into IBM Information Systems
Group's internal ordering and billing software development function.
The talk will describe how increasing the usability of software applica-
tions can make end users more productive, reduce training costs and time,
and result in systems that more efficiently meet the needs of the business
and of users. A brief description will be provided of how usability ac-
tivities should be incorporated into the development process to achieve op-
timum results.
- Ben
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