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From: George Cross <cross%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>


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         Second Annual Conference on Law and Technology

Theme: Legal Language, Computational Linguistics,
       and Artificial Intelligence

Organizers:
        Dr. Charles Walter, Director
          Program on Law and Technology
        University of Houston Law Center
        Houston, Texas 77004
                713-749-1422
                713-749-4935

        Dr. Sidney Lamb, Chairman
        Department of Linguistics and Semiotics
        Rice University
        Houston, Texas

When: June 24-30, 1985

Where: University of Houston,
       Houston, Texas

Goal: To stimulate research between jurists, linguists, and computer
        scientists

Format: Tutorials, Research Presentations, and Workshops

         (Tentative) Schedule

Tutorials:
        June 24 A.M. Legal Language
        June 24 P.M. Programming the Law in PROLOG
        June 25 A.M. Natural Language Processing
        June 25 P.M. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

Original Research Papers:
        June 26-June 28

Workshops:
        June 28-30 Workshop Topics to be determined by Participants

Possible Sessions and Workshop Topics:
  --viewing legal language as the interface between legal concepts and
	  computer code
  --the language of justice and legal logic: Cardozo's methods of sociology
	  and philosophy
  --semantics of legal situations
  --viewing legal language as a computerizable process
  --structural & cognitive analysis of legal language
  --indeterminancy and uncertainty in legal language
  --the role of language in reasoning
  --linguistic & cognitive networks
  --computer-human interactions
  --understanding natural legal language
  --legal document analysis  & linguistic theory
  --automatic representation of semantic relationships
  --non-Von Neumann architectures
  --parsing natural language
  --the role of language in human reasoning.
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Please contact Charles Walter for further information
He is not on the net.