Computer/Law Institute

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

english

Gwen R Wildeboer
Michel CA Klein
Mr. E.M. Uijttenbroek

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Explaining the Relevance of Court Decisions to Laymen

Gwen R Wildeboer, Michel CA Klein, and E.M. Uijttenbroek, In JURIX 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference, Frontiers in AI and applications vol. 165, pages 129-138. JURX, IOS Press, 2007, Eds. Lodder/Mommers.

In the context of intelligent disclosure of case law, we report on our

findings with respect to the presentation of relevant court decisions back to the

laymen users. For this presentation we first localize the relevant legal concepts in

the cases using shallow NLP techniques. Hereafter we investigated the use of

techniques from the field of recommender systems, i.e. keyword style explanation

and influence style explanation, to present the cases to the user in an

understandable way. In order to find out if we succeeded in that respect, we

conducted a small user satisfaction research. It shows promising results, and gives

us some directions for future research.