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We are currently developing concepts and software tools designed to aid legal practitioners in the process of statutory interpretation: the process of determining the meaning of a statute or regulation and applying it to a particular set of facts. This is being attempted through the integration of database and expert system technologies. Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is being used to model legal precedents while Rule-Based Reasoning (RBR) modules are being used to model the legislation and other types of causal knowledge. It is hoped to generalise these findings and to develop a formal methodology for integrating case-based databases with rule-based expert systems in the legal domain.
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Vossos, G., Zeleznikow, J. (1992). Improving Automated Litigation Support by Supplementing Rule-Based Reasoning with Case-Based Reasoning. In: Tjoa, A., Ramos, I. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7557-6_24
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