I’m co-author of a paper in the special session Human-Rules at The 7th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2013), Seattle, Washington, USA.
A Study on Translating Regulatory Rules from Natural Language to Defeasible Logic
Adam Wyner and Guido Governatori
Abstract
Legally binding regulations are expressed in natural language. Yet, we cannot formally or automatically reason with regulations in that form. Defeasible Logic has been used to formally represent the semantic interpretation of regulations; such representations may provide the abstract specification for a machine-readable and processable representation as in LegalRuleML. However, manual translation is prohibitively costly in terms of time, labour, and knowledge. The paper discusses work in progress using the state-of-the-art in automatic translation of a sample of regulatory clauses to a machine readable formal representation and a comparison to correlated Defeasible Logic representations. It outlines some key problems and proposes tasks to address the problems.
Bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{WynerGovernatoriH-R2013,
author = {Adam Wyner and Guido Governatori},
title = {A Study on Translating Regulatory Rules from Natural Language to Defeasible Logic},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {R}ule{ML} 2013},
publisher = {{CEUR}},
year = {2013},
pages = {??-??},
address = {Seattle, Washington, USA},
note = {To appear}
}
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By Adam Wyner
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Month: June 2013
ICAIL 2013 Papers
I’m co-author of three papers at The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013), Rome, Italy, The Netherlands.
OASIS LegalRuleML
Tara Athan, Harold Boley, Guido Governatori, Monica Palmirani, Adrian Paschke, Adam Wyner
Abstract
In this paper we present the motivation, use cases, design principles, abstract syntax, and initial core of LRML. The LRML core is sufficiently rich for expressing legal sources, time, defeasibility, and deontic operators. An example is provided. LRML is compared to related work.
Bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{AthanEtAl2013,
author = {Tara Athan and Harold Boley and Guido Governatori and Monica Palmirani and Adrian Paschke and Adam Wyner},
title = {{OASIS} {L}egal{R}ule{ML}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013)},
year = {2013},
pages = {3-12},
address = {Rome, Italy}
}
Argument Schemes for Reasoning with Legal Cases Using Values
Trevor Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Adam Wyner, and Katie Atkinson
Abstract
Argument schemes can provide a means of explicitly describing reasoning methods in a form that lends itself to computation. The reasoning required to distinguish cases in the manner of CATO has been previously captured as a set of argument schemes. Here we present argument schemes that encapsulate another way of reasoning with cases: using preferences between social values revealed in past decisions to decide cases which have no exact matching precedents when the cases are described in terms of factors. We provide a set of schemes, with variations to capture different ways of comparing sets and varying degrees of promotion of values; we formalise these schemes; and we illustrate them with some examples.
Bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{BenchCaponPrakkenWynerAtkinsonValueCBR2013,
author = {Trevor Bench-Capon and Henry Prakken and Adam Wyner and Katie Atkinson},
title = {Argument Schemes for Reasoning about Legal Cases},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013)},
year = {2013},
pages = {13-22},
address = {Rome, Italy}
}
Argumentation Based Tools for Policy-Making
Maya Wardeh, Adam Wyner, Trevor Bench-Capon, and Katie Atkinson
Abstract
Short paper, so no abstract.
Bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{WardehWynerAtkinsonBenchCaponDemos2013,
author = {Maya Wardeh and Adam Wyner and Trevor Bench-Capon and Katie Atkinson},
title = {Argumentation Based Tools for Policy-Making},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013)},
year = {2013},
pages = {249-250},
address = {Rome, Italy}
}
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Seminar Presentation at Aberdeen Law School
I was recently invited to give a seminar at the Law School at the University of Aberdeen about AI and Law related research in general and text analytics for legal studies in particulars. Though it was held at 16:00 on a Friday (!) it was well attended (thanks to all who came), and there was good discussion afterwards. I hope this is the start of a collaboration between me and my colleagues in the Law School.
The slides have some references and links that might be interesting. Click on the title link for the slides.
Textual Processing of Legal Cases
Adam Wyner
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By Adam Wyner
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