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JURIX '96
Ninth International Conference
on
Legal Knowledge-Based Systems
Friday, December 13, 1996
Schoordijk Institute, Center for Law, Administration and
Informatization Tilburg University, the Netherlands
JURIX
The Dutch foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems, JURIX, is a forum
for research on Artificial Intelligence in the legal domain. Since
1988, JURIX has organised annual international conferences on current
research in this field.
THE JURIX '96 CONFERENCE
On December 13, 1996 the ninth conference will take place at Tilburg
University in the Netherlands. Some themes that will be discussed are
IT developments on the electronic highway, intelligent access to
distributed and multi-media information, representation of legal
knowledge (e.g., with logics), practical decision support systems and
automation of legal reasoning. The opening address titled
`Globalization and Informatization' will be given by professor
Lubbers, former prime minister of the Netherlands.
The conference language is English. During the conference papers will
be presented in parallel sessions by authors and invited speakers. The
proceedings of the conference will be available at the conference.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
10.15 - 10.30 Welcome by the chairman of JURIX, Jaap van den Herik
10.30 - 11.00 Invited lecture by prof. Ruud Lubbers `Globalization
and Informatization'
11.00 - 11.20 Trevor Bench-Capon: Deep Models, Ontologies and
Legal Knowledge Based Systems
11.20 - 11.40 Pause
11.40 - 12.00 Sien Moens: Salomon: automatic abstracting of legal
cases for effective access to court decisions
12.00 - 12.20 Karl Branting: A Framework for Self-Explaining Legal
Documents
12.20 - 12.40 Nienke Den Haan: Constructing Normative Rules
12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Parallel sessions:
Session 1
14.00 - 14.20 Luuk Matthijssen: A task-based hyperindex for Legal
Databases
14.20 - 14.40 Jeannette Quast: A Generic Model for the
Interpretation of Vague Norms
14.40 - 15.00 Kees van Noortwijk: Word use in legal texts:
statistical facts and practical applicability
Session 2
14.00 - 14.20 Tokuyasu Kakuta: Legal Reasoning by Structural
Analogy Based on Goal-Dependent Abstraction
14.20 - 14.40 Bart Verheij: An integrated view on rules and
principles
14.40 - 15.00 Bipin Indurkhya: Incorporating indeterminacy in
formal models of legal reasoning
15.00 - 15.20 Pause
15.20 - 15.40 Pepijn Visser: The formal specification of a legal ontology
15.40 - 16.00 Andrew Stranieri: Automating legal reasoning in
discretionary domains
16.00 - 16.30 Invited lecture by Daniele Bourcier
16.30 Closing of the conference
16.45 Reception
18.00 Conference dinner
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Chair: Corien Prins (Tilburg University)
Jaap van den Herik (University of Limburg)
Robert van Kralingen (Tilburg University)
Marek Sergot (Imperial College London)
John Zeleznikow (La Trobe University)
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Dr. Robert van Kralingen
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 13-4668193/8199
Fax: (+31) 13-4668149
E-mail: R.W.vKr...@kub.nl
More information about JURIX, news updates on the JURIX '96
conference, and hotel and travel information are made available
through the WWW pages: http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/schrdijk/cri/jurix96/
http://jurix.bsk.utwente.nl/
TUTORIAL
Using cases to reason and argue in legal knowledge based systems
John Zeleznikow La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
On December 12, the afternoon preceding the JURIX conference, a
tutorial will be held by Dr. John Zeleznikow. The tutorial will
introduce participants to the various use of cases in building legal
knowledge based systems. Traditionally AI and Law researchers have
used cases as part of case based reasoning or hybrid systems. Whilst
examining such issues we also consider how to enhance legal knowledge
based systems through the use of knowledge discovery techniques.
Outline of the Tutorial
- Introduction
- Legal positivism and legal realism
- Limitations of rule based reasoning - The CAAS system
- Commonplace and landmark cases - The Mabo case
- Learning from data - data mining and knowledge discovery
- Case based reasoning paradigms - The AusStudy Advisor
- Reasoning in discretionary domains
- Induction - The IKBALS IV and Split_Up systems
- Neural Networks - The Split_Up system
- Argumentation and Explanation - The Split_Up system
- Knowledge discovery, knowledge validation and concept drift
- Negotiation Support tools - The Family_Negotiator system
SUBSCRIPTION
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Conference: non-academic participants dfl. 200
Conference: academic participants dfl. 125
Conference: students dfl. 75
Tutorial: non-academic and
academic participants dfl. 50
Tutorial: students dfl. 25
Conference dinner dfl. 75
Total dfl. ...
Please transfer the total amount due to giro-account 6131857 in the
name of Stichting JURIX congres 96, Tilburg. When desired, visitors
from abroad can pay in cash at the conference.
Completed forms (in either hard copy or electronic form) can be send
to:
Dr. Robert van Kralingen
Schoordijk Institute
Center for Law, Administration and Informatization
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 13-4668193/8199
Fax: (+31) 13-4668149
E-mail: R.W.vKr...@kub.nl