Information management to meet the needs of legal professionals

Author

Pasha, M.A. ; Soper, P.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1996

fDate

9-10 Sep 1996

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

376

Abstract

The present trend of computer usage in legal practice and the availability of on-line legal information have created a pressing need for practical systems which can retrieve required pieces of information in a precise fashion and support the use of the retrieved information in legal practice. The authors attempt to address these needs by combining the strengths of two contrasting technologies: hypermedia and KBS. More particularly they describe a logic programming based information management tool which provides the basis for conceptual retrieval within this combined framework. The tool is applied to three needs of legal professionals: precise information retrieval; practical use of the information retrieved; and support for open texture interpretation

Keywords

hypermedia; information needs; information retrieval; information use; knowledge based systems; law administration; logic programming; multimedia computing; professional aspects; computer usage; conceptual retrieval; hypermedia; information management; knowledge based systems; legal practice; legal professional needs; logic programming based information management tool; on-line legal information; open texture interpretation; precise information retrieval; retrieved information use; Aging; Computer science; Information management; Information retrieval; Knowledge based systems; Law; Legal factors; Logic programming; Pressing; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7662-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.1996.558347

Filename

558347