Branting, L. K. (1998). Techniques for automated drafting of judicial documents. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 6(2):214-229. Home/Search Document Details and Download
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....be determined without open textured reasoning. Task 4 is an instance of document drafting, a con guration task that entails selecting and arranging textual elements to satisfy the drafter s legal goals and the stylistic constraints applicable to the document genre (Lauritsen, 1993; Gordon, 1989; Branting et al. 1998). The most appropriate approach to automated document drafting depends on the complexity and variability of the documents and the importance to the user of understanding the structure and content of the document. Template based approaches to document drafting are suitable when document complexity ....
....to document drafting are suitable when document complexity and variability and the need for explanation are all low. Discourse based approaches, by contrast, are better suited when documents are complex or highly variable or if users require explanations of document structure and content (Branting, 1998). In advisory systems for pro se litigants, two factors make template based document drafting techniques more appropriate than the alternative discoursebased techniques. First, the initiating documents (e.g. petitions or complaints) in the legal domains popular with pro se litigants (e.g. ....
Branting, L. K. (1998). Techniques for automated drafting of judicial documents. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 6(2):214-229.
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....such as counseling clients, presenting arguments in courts and other forums, and negotiation, nevertheless entail drafting documents such as briefs, letters, and memoranda. Moreover, judicial decision making entails creation of a wide range of documents, from brief orders to lengthy decisions [Bra98]. In general, the focus of legal knowledge based system development has been on legal reasoning at the expense of knowledge concerning document drafting. The primary tasks addressed by most legal knowledge based systems have been analysis, argumentation, prediction, and planning. While some ....
....until she is satisfied with its form and content. Finally, she can postedit the document into its final form. This architecture is being implemented in DocuPlanner 2.0, a document creation system for judicial document assembly. DocuPlanner 2. 0 s legal reasoner builds on our previous work on JSA [Bra98], a Lisp implementation of a back chaining reasoner for judicial screening. DocuPlanner 2.0 s document planner is being implemented in Fuf [Elh92] a unification system developed at Columbia that we have been using in document planning projects over the past several years. 6 Conclusion ....
L. Karl Branting. Techniques for automated drafting of judicial documents. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 6(2):214--229, 1998.
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