IRList Digest Saturday, 2 May 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: Announcement - Final Program for Conference on AI and Law Software Psychology Society - Potomac Chapter 11(3), Spring 87 News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 May 87 21:04:37 edt From: hafner@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu Subject: Conf. on AI and Law - Final Schedule The First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law May 27-29, 1987 Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 Sponsored by: The Center for Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University In Cooperation with ACM SIGART Registration: Ms. Rita Laffey, (617) 437-3346 Information: Prof. Carole Hafner (617) 437-5116 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS WEDNESDAY, May 27 8:30-12:30 Tutorials A. "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (for lawyers)" Prof. Edwina L. Rissland, University of Massachusetts and Harvard Law School B. "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Law: Opportunities and Challenges" Profs. Donald H. Berman and Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University 2:00-2:30 Welcome; Opening Remarks. 2:30-4:00 Legal Expert Systems I 2:30 "Expert Systems in Law: Out of the Research Laboratory and into the Marketplace" Richard E. Susskind Ernst & Whinney, London, England 3:00 "Expert Systems in Law: The DataLex Project" Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Alan L. Tyree University of Sydney, Australia 3:30 "Explanation for an Expert System that Performs Estate Planning" Dean A. Schlobohm and Donald A. Waterman Stanford University, The Rand Corporation 4:00-4:30 Coffee 4:30-6:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems I 4:30 "Conceptual Legal Document Retrieval Using the RUBRIC System" Richard M. Tong, Clifford A. Reid, Peter R. Douglas and Gregory J. Crowe Advanced Decision Systems 5:00 "Conceptual Organization of Case Law Knowledge Bases" Carole D. Hafner Northeastern University 5:30 "Designing Text Retrieval Systems for Conceptual Searching" Jon Bing Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law 6:30-8:30 Welcoming Reception, Northeastern U. Faculty Center THURSDAY, May 28 9:00-10:30 Models of Legal Reasoning I 9:00 "A Process Specification of Expert Lawyer Reasoning" D. Peter O'Neil Harvard Law School 9:30 "A Case-Based System for Trade Secrets Law" Edwina L. Rissland and Kevin D. Ashley University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10:00 "But, See, Accord: Generating Blue Book Citations in HYPO" Kevin D. Ashley and Edwina L. Rissland University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems II 11:00 "A Natural Language Based Legal Expert System for Consultation and Tutoring -- The LEX Project" F. Haft, R.P. Jones and Th. Wetter IBM Heidelberg Scientific Centre, West Germany 11:30 "The Application of Expert Systems Technology to Case-Based Law" J.C. Smith and Cal Deedman University of British Columbia 12:00 "Some Problems in Designing Expert Systems to Aid Legal Reasoning" Layman E. Allen and Charles S. Saxon The University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:00 Panel: "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Legal System" Moderator: Cary G. DeBessonet, Law and Artificial Intelligence Project, Louisiana State Law Institute 3:00-4:00 Conceptual Legal Retrieval Systems II 3:00 "Conceptual Retrieval and Case Law" Judith P. Dick University of Toronto 3:30 "A Connectionist Approach to Conceptual Information Retrieval" Richard K. Belew University of California, San Diego 4:00-4:30 Coffee 4:30-6:00 Expert Systems and Tax Law 4:30 "A PROLOG Model of the Income Tax Act of Canada" David M. Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada 5:00 "An Expert System for Screening Employee Pension Plans for the Internal Revenue Service" U.S. Internal Revenue Service Gary Grady and Ramesh S. Patil 5:30 "Handling of Significant Deviations from Boilerplate Text" U.S. Internal Revenue Service Gary Morris, Keith Taylor and Maury Harwood 7:00 Reception and Banquet, The Colonnade Hote Banquet Address: Non-Monotonic Reasoning Prof. John McCarthy, Stanford University FRIDAY, May 29 9:00-10:30 Applications of Deontic Logic 9:00 "Legal Reasoning in 3-D" Marvin Belzer University of Georgia 9:30 "On the Relationship Between Permission and Obligation" Andrew J.I. Jones University of Oslo, Norway 10:00 "System = Program + Users + Law" Naftaly H. Minsky and David Rozenshtein Rutgers University 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-12:30 Legal Expert Systems III 11:00 "Support for Policy Makers: Formulating Legislation with the Aid of Logical Models" T.J.M. Bench-Capon Imperial College of Science and Technology, London 11:30 "Logic Programming for Large Scale Applications in Law: A Formalisation of Supplementary Benefit Legislation" T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. Routen and M.J. Sergot Imperial College of Science and Technology, London 12:00 "Knowledge Representation in DEFAULT: An Attempt to Classify General Types of Knowledge Used by Legal Experts" Roger D. Purdy University of Akron 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:00 Panel: Modeling the Legal Reasoning Process: Formal and Computational Approaches Moderator: Prof. L. Thorne McCarty, Rutgers University 3:00-4:00 Models of Legal Reasoning II 3:00 "Precedent-Based Legal Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition in Contract Law: A Process Model" Seth R. Goldman, Michael G. Dyer and Margot Flowers University of California, Los Angeles 3:30 "Reasoning about 'Hard' Cases in Talmudic Law" Steven S. Weiner Harvard Law School, MIT 4:00-4:30 Coffee 4:30-6:00 Legal Knowledge Representation 4:30 "OBLOG-2: A Hybrid Knowledge Representation System for Defeasible Reasoning" Thomas F. Gordon GMD, Sankt Augustin, West Germany 5:00 "ESPLEX: A Rule and Conceptual Model for Representing Statutes" Carlo Biagioli, Paola Mariani and Daniela Tiscornia Instituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Florence, Italy 6:00 "Legal Data Modeling: The Prohibited Transaction Exemption Analyst" Keith Bellairs Computer Law Systems, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Apr 87 07:07:56 EST From: Ben Shneiderman Subject: Software Psychology Society Hello...here's the latest announcement of the Software Psychology Society for the IRList readership....Ben [Note: this has been slightly edited - Ed] SOFTWARE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY POTOMAC CHAPTER VOLUME 11 NUMBER 3 SPRING 1987 Note: All meetings will be held at the George Washington University's Mar- vin Center (800 21st Street, N.W.) between 10:00 AM and noon. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Note: Send correspondence for this newsletter to: Software Psychology So- ciety, c/o Skip Williamson, Knowledge Systems, Inc., 5705 Stillwell Rd., Rockville, MD 20851. May 8 Room 413-414 ACTIVE OFFICE SYSTEMS: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING STRESS Nathan Edelson, Center for Office Health & Productivity Enhancement 9913 Grayson Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901 Jerome Danoff, College of Allied Health Sciences Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 One approach to dealing with stress in the computer workplace is to enable users to engage in moderate levels of physical activity while simultaneous- ly performing their regular computer tasks. Edelson has developed several systems utilizing stationary bicycles, electric treadmills, and special derivative exercises and posture devices, which will be illustrated and/or demonstrated. A recent research study demonstrated that subjects doing word processing in an active office were able to maintain high levels of productivity while reducing their levels of stress and body complaints. Five experienced typ- ists worked for five two-hour sessions over a two week period. Performance and subjective data will be presented. June 12 Room 413-414 TRANSFER OF LEARNING IN THE REAL WORLD Mary Beth Rosson, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center P. O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 As the function available in computing systems evolves, and as the range of computer applications increases, the transfer of users' skill from one sys- tem to another becomes critical. Unfortunately, the traditional psycholog- ical studies of transfer of learning are of little assistance in under- standing and facilitating transfer phenomena under the complex conditions present in most real-world examples of transfer between computing systems. Recent work has made some progress in characterizing these more complex si- tuations, but has still relied largely on controlled studies conducted in a laboratory environment. The present work took a more qualitative approach in a study of real users making a transition between one or more procedural formatting languages and a newer, object-oriented tag system. Users who varied in their experience with the procedural languages were studied dur- ing a week-long course modeled on the organization's standard computer edu- cation modules; their performance on class exercises and their attitudes about the system were monitored over the five days. Our findings showed effects of user background on both the types of errors made in using the new system, and attitudes expressed about the system: users who were heavy users of the procedural systems tended to make more errors on the exercises, and users who were more sophisticated users of the procedural systems tended to become more negative about the tag system over the five-day period. I will discuss the different components of knowledge transfer implied by the error patterns, as well as the possible conse- quences of the attitudinal effects observed. July 10 Room 413-414 THE VALUE OF A USABILITY LABORATORY IN THE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Michael F. DiAngelo, IBM Usability Laboratory 10401 Fernwood Road, Bethesda, MD 20817 This talk will cover the value/worth of usability in the application development process, particularly as it applies to applications written for use within the IBM business systems. Specifically, it will provide an overview of how usability has been integrated into IBM Information Systems Group's internal ordering and billing software development function. The talk will describe how increasing the usability of software applica- tions can make end users more productive, reduce training costs and time, and result in systems that more efficiently meet the needs of the business and of users. A brief description will be provided of how usability ac- tivities should be incorporated into the development process to achieve op- timum results. - Ben ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************