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In attempting to build intelligent litigation support tools, we have moved beyond first generation, production rule legal expert systems. Our work supplements rule-based reasoning with case based reasoning and intelligent information retrieval. This research, specifies an approach to the case based retrieval problem which relies heavily on an extended object-oriented / rule-based system architecture that is supplemented with causal background information. Machine learning techniques and a distributed agent architecture are used to help simulate the reasoning process of lawyers. In this paper, we outline our implementation of the hybrid IKBALS II Rule Based Reasoning / Case Based Reasoning system. It makes extensive use of an automated case representation editor and background information.
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Vossos, G., Zeleznikow, J., Hunter, D. (1993). Developing co-operating legal knowledge based systems. In: Torasso, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 728. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57292-9_54
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