FGCS'94 Workshop 5
Application of Logic Programming to Legal Reasoning

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Contents

Workshop Committee i
 
Cases and Rules: A Natural Synergy 1
   Edwina L. Rissland
Argument and Reconciliation 9
   Robert A. Kowalski & Francesca Toni
Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning 17
   L. Thorne McCarty
 
The Vienna Sales Convention in a DOOD Language 25
   Chie Takahashi & Kazumasa Yokota
Defeasible Reasoning in Japanese Criminal Jurisprudence 37
   Masato Shibasaki & Katsumi Nitta
A Controlled Linguistic Model and A Representative Framework for Legal Phrase Analysis 45
   Hirosato Nomura
Similarity of Cases: From Temporal Relations of Affairs 53
   Satoshi Tojo & Katsumi Nitta
A Sorted Generalization for Legal Reasoning 61
   Makoto Haraguchi & Tokuyasu Kakuta
Constructing a Legal Ontology from a General Ontology 73
   Masaki Kurematsu, Masayuki Tada & Takahira Yamaguchi
The Knowledge Structure of Legal Meta-inference and its Systematization 81
   Hajime Yoshino