More than wyshful thinking: AustLII's legal inferencing via the World Wide Web

Graham Greenleaf; Andrew Mowbray; Geoffrey King; Simon Cant; Philip Chung

doi:10.1145/261618.261629

More than wyshful thinking: AustLII's legal inferencing via the World Wide Web

Graham Greenleaf^*, Andrew Mowbray, Geoffrey King, Simon Cant, Philip Chung

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Abstract

The World Wide Web presents new challenges for the development of legal inferencing systems. This project starts by implementing via the web the inferencing component of the previous 'DataLex' research, through the wysh interface. This provides one solution to the problem of maintaining state in web interactions, while only requiring standard HTML and CGI facilities. Wysh knowledgebases can interact with other wysh knowledgebases located anywhere on the web, creating opportunities for new forms of 'cooperative' knowledgebase development. Automated and customized means of linking knowledgebases and inferencing dialogues to a large dynamic 'real world' legal information system (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) are provided, giving one means of overcoming the 'knowledgebase lag'. The project's development tools are available to any legal knowledgebase developer via the web.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICAIL '97: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	47-55
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780897919241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/261618.261629
Publication status	Published - 1997
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (6th : 1997) - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 30 Jun 1997 → 3 Jul 1997

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Conference	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (6th : 1997)
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	30/06/97 → 3/07/97

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Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A, King, G, Cant, S & Chung, P 1997, More than wyshful thinking: AustLII's legal inferencing via the World Wide Web. in ICAIL '97: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 47-55, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (6th : 1997), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30/06/97. https://doi.org/10.1145/261618.261629

More than wyshful thinking: AustLII's legal inferencing via the World Wide Web. / Greenleaf, Graham; Mowbray, Andrew; King, Geoffrey et al.
ICAIL '97: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1997. p. 47-55.

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