Coping with change

Bratley, Paul; Frémont, Jacques; Mackaay, Ejan; Poulin, Daniel

doi:10.1145/112646.112654

Cited by 26 publications

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“…20 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-break. 21 This study used features based on the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth HJ, Epstein L, Martin AD, Segal JA, Ruger TJ, Benesh SC. 2016 Supreme Court Database, Version 2016 Legacy Release v01.…”

Section: Problems With Uncritical Use Of Past Decisionsmentioning

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Noise induced hearing loss: Building an application using the ANGELIC methodology

Al-Abdulkarim

Atkinson

Bench‐Capon

et al. 2018

AAC

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The ANGELIC methodology was developed to encapsulate knowledge of particular legal domains. In this paper we describe its use to build a full scale practical application intended to be used internally by Weightmans, a large firm of legal practitioners with branches throughout the UK. We describe the domain, Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), the intended task, the sources used, the stages in development and the resulting application. An assessment of the project and its potential for further development is discussed. The project shows that current academic research using computational models of argument can prove useful to legal practitioners confronted by real legal tasks.

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Section: Problems With Uncritical Use Of Past Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Noise induced hearing loss: Building an application using the ANGELIC methodology

Al-Abdulkarim

Atkinson

Bench‐Capon

et al. 2018

AAC

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“…These constraints are expressed in a typed logic extended to include arithmetic. It is worth briefly noting the objection to this approach to the maintenance problem given in (Bratley 1991), namely that for a system to be useful the representation must be augmented with the expertise to provide for the interpretation of the law and the resolution of vague concepts. They claim that such an augmentation will necessarily destroy the correspondences which it was argued above would facilitate (or make possible) maintenance.…”

Section: Isomorphism and Maintenancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It would be the purest folly to invest in a legal KBS unless there was some assurance that it would be maintainable, and this is an issue which has received far too little attention. For a clear discussion of these issues, a description of the inadequate way in which they are addressed by current approaches, see (Bratley et al 1991). So our answer to the original question about practical take up is that there can be no confidence in the applicability of KBS until a convincing answer to the maintainability of such systems can be given.…”

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The maintenance of legal knowledge based systems

Bench‐Capon

Coenen

1992

Artif Intell Rev

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Legal knowledge based systems (KBSs) are, by definition, grounded on law. Very often the relevant law is subject to routine amendment and repeal, such changes occurring at irregular and unpredictable intervals. These systems are thus particularly affected by significant problems of adaptation as a result, a fact which has limited their practical take-up. If they are to be of more practical use the maintenance issues associated with these systems must be taken seriously. In this paper we discuss the issues associated with the maintenance of legal KBSs and describe a suite of maintenance tools designed to address these issues.

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“…For example, a KBS developed for British Coal's Insurance and Pensions Division requires an average of two changes per week due to changes in legislation, legal judgements and company policy (Bench-Capon & Coenen 1992a). This implies that if an ES is not maintainable it may be out of date almost before it is installed (Bench-Capon & Coenen 1992b;Bratley, et al 1991).…”

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The client‐centred approach: expert system maintenance

1992

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Developing an expert system is a considerable investment in time and money and yet very little attention has focused on keeping expert systems in regular beneficial use. The problems of maintaining expert systems and the lack of research that this area has attracted are major contributing factors to the continued lack of acceptance of these systems. This paper discusses the maintenance of expert systems within the context of the Client Centred Approach. Although there are many similarities between maintaining expert systems and conventional systems maintenance there is one vital differenceknowledge changes. Consequently an expert system requires regular evolutionary maintenance if its peqormance is not to be impaired. This paper is intended to promote discussion of maintenance issues within the community. We review some principles and techniques that can assist the maintenance of expert systems and describe some formative work towards a maintenance methodology derivedfrom a case study of maintaining a commercially-available expert system.

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Coping with change

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Noise induced hearing loss: Building an application using the ANGELIC methodology

Noise induced hearing loss: Building an application using the ANGELIC methodology

The maintenance of legal knowledge based systems

The client‐centred approach: expert system maintenance

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