Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1996. Proceedings., Seventh International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7662-0
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.1996.558347
