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From: ross@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Ross Gayler)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Expert Systems for Legislative Reasoning
Keywords: expert system, legislation, social security
Message-ID: <482@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>
Date: 30 Aug 90 03:34:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland.
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I have to -rapidly- prepare a summary of work that has been done on expert
systems for legislative reasoning, so any assistance would be much appreciated.

The type of system I am most interested in is one that has had some body of
legislation hand-crafted into the E/S representation (NOT machine understanding
of the legislation as natural language text).  The type of legislation is mostly
procedural and the aim of the system is assist in the application of the
legislation to individual cases.  The prototypical case would be something like
social security regulations: given the details of an applicant (1) is the
applicant eligible for a payment (2) how much are they eligible for, and (3)
when should payments start?

You could assist me by: telling me of a system of this type, theoretical
analyses relevant to this area, the name of a person you consider to be expert
in this area.  Please supply enough detail so that I can track them down.
Email addresses would be really useful.

Thanks.	Ross Gayler	ross@psych.psy.uq.oz.au