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From: ntm1169@dsac.dla.mil (Mott Given)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neural Network applications to Law
Message-ID: <2844@dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 15 Apr 91 14:52:17 GMT
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From article <8754@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, by arshad@cs.ed.ac.uk (Arshad Mahmood):
> Could anybody refer me to any references which apply neural network techniques
> to law. There is at present a major initiative (both within Britian and 
> elsewhere) to apply techniques from computer science to law (this can
> range from as an aid to teaching to the actual use of expert systems in
> arriving at suitable statuates, etc).

    I can't give you any NN references, but I believe people are having far
    more success using case-based reasoning.  Professor Edwina Rissland
    at the Univ. of Massachusetts (rissland@cs.umass.edu) is using a
    case-based approach.  From what I understand about neural nets, I believe
    they are better suited for lower level cognitive tasks than the analysis
    of legal cases.


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