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Approaches to Text Mining Arguments from Legal Cases
[chapter]
2010
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This paper describes recent approaches using text-mining to automatically profile and extract arguments from legal cases. We outline some of the background context and motivations. ...
[42] was presented at the Workshop on Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation held in conjunction with JURIX 2008. The authors thank the reviewers and audiences for their comments. ...
Text-mining in the Case base Current commerical systems (e.g. Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw) or web-based public services (e.g. WorldLii) have limited text mining capabilities. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12837-0_4
fatcat:zhpvtpt7lvf7tjrhesy7n6pytu
Annotation of argument structure in Japanese legal documents
2017
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining
and c) the definition of a linked argument structure based on legal sub-arguments. ...
In particular, we utilize the hierarchical argument structure of the judgment documents. ...
The document type we consider here, the judgment document, is one of the most important types of legal text in the Japanese legal system. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/w17-5103
dblp:conf/argmining/YamadaTT17
fatcat:baoncxr7qbe53ho2v3z5t74ioa
Legitimising a 'zombie idea': childhood vaccines and autism – the complex tale of two judgments on vaccine injury in Italy
2021
International Journal of Law in Context
The impact of 'bad' science on judicial decision-making is a thorny aspect of the relationship between science and law. ...
Using a combination of actor–network theory and legal pragmatism, we uncovered a network of actors and institutions internal and external to the legal system enabling these impactful decisions that went ...
We also wish to thank Christophe Lazaro, Tamara Tulich and Fiona McGaughey for comments on earlier drafts, as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their thorough and thoughtful feedback. ...
doi:10.1017/s1744552321000586
fatcat:fvyllcsqp5e3plhujfv5s3gb6u
Argumentation mining
2009
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law - ICAIL '09
mining in legal texts. ...
Argumentation mining aims to detect the arguments presented in a text document, the relations between them and the internal structure of each individual argument. ...
The authors train a classifier on 141 House of Lords judgments and test it on 47 judgments, where a judgment contains 105 sentences on average. ...
doi:10.1145/1568234.1568246
dblp:conf/icail/PalauM09a
fatcat:6lm3w3en2zfb5n6iiqqi5auyxi
Page 11 of The Lawyers Weekly Vol. 12, Issue 6
[page]
1992
The Lawyers Weekly
James Donnelly on grounds of “pal- pable and overriding error” (see: “Deci- sion to allow plaintiffs to tape their medical exams was based on ‘palpable and overriding error’: Ont. ...
Despite the dispute shown over the accuracy of the physician’s reports (based on the doctor's medical report for the defence in a previous action), Mr. ...
Annotating Patterns of Reasoning about Medical Theories of Causation in Vaccine Cases: Toward a Type System for Arguments
2014
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Argumentation Mining
The decisions report whether the evidence adduced by the petitioner adequately supports the claim that a medical theory causally links some type of vaccine with various types of injuries or adverse medical ...
Without an adequate and operational type system, we are unlikely to reach consensus on argument corpora that can function as a gold standard. ...
Medical or Scientific Studies as Basis In vaccine decisions, it is often the case that arguments are based upon medical or scientific studies, either published in medical or scientific journals or reported ...
doi:10.3115/v1/w14-2101
dblp:conf/acl/WalkerVS14
fatcat:etpi7vkxerglfb5iy3nz3eqxae
Page 25 of The Lawyers Weekly Vol. 12, Issue 35
[page]
1993
The Lawyers Weekly
The right to sue
for tort damages fell outside the rights protected by
s.7, based on precedent and the fact that the Ontario
no-fault system did not merely restrict rights but
added new ones. ...
the needs and circumstances of the child; if all other factors relating to best interests were relatively equal, children’s views, if based on clearly enunciated rational decisions, should tip the scale ...
Prediction of relevant biomedical documents: a human microbiome case study
2015
BioData Mining
This study explores the use of the searcher's relevance feedback judgments to support relevance ranking based on features more general than recency. ...
Ranking by recency, as PubMed does, takes into account only one factor indicating potential relevance. ...
We also acknowledge funding support for this research from NIH grants LM009012 and LM010098. ...
doi:10.1186/s13040-015-0061-5
pmid:26361503
pmcid:PMC4564977
fatcat:rlm5amsgqvcx5jwjdwxwp7olz4
Evidence Types, Credibility Factors, and Patterns or Soft Rules for Weighing Conflicting Evidence: Argument Mining in the Context of Legal Rules Governing Evidence Assessment
2018
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argument Mining
This paper reports on the results of an empirical study of adjudicatory decisions about veterans' claims for disability benefits in the United States. ...
It also reports on patterns or "soft rules" that the tribunal uses to comparatively weigh the probative value of conflicting evidence. ...
This research was generously supported by the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, New York, USA. ...
doi:10.18653/v1/w18-5209
dblp:conf/argmining/WalkerFPR18
fatcat:3koxcoh3mfbttoq6zs4zbms3a4
Page 7 of The Lawyers Weekly Vol. 10, Issue 37
[page]
1991
The Lawyers Weekly
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Socialinės teisės Europos žmogaus teisių teismo praktikoje
2008
Teisė
In the article the Author analyses the social rights' issues under the European Convention on Human Rights and their interpretation given by the European Court of Human Rights. ...
Social rights were not included into the text of the Convention adopted in 1950. ...
No. 11810/03, judgment (just satisfaction and striking out on 21 June 2006) the Court found a violation of article 1 of Protocol 1 with regard to the reducing of possible compensation based on the State's ...
doi:10.15388/teise.2008.2.387
fatcat:ygzyilxuknaenp3jk4kik3hnmq
Medical Monitoring Plaintiffs and Subsequent Claims for Disease
1999
The University of Chicago Law Review
support in the decisions of numerous courts. a) The special nature of medical monitoring claims. ...
their judgments, as long as the exception is based on grounds other than simple fairness. 9 Courts can achieve this by stating as part of their judgment in the first suit that the decision does not preclude ...
doi:10.2307/1600436
fatcat:dslm7eu3bzcj5pvn7ifs7efas4
Reducing the Overburden: The Doris Coal Presumption and Administrative Efficiency under the Black Lung Benefits Act
2000
Michigan law review
on medical evidence and mining history. ...
In a system with a bimodal choice of outcomes -coverage for the disputed medical treatment or no coverage -an allocation system that initially appor tions liability based on the best guess as determined ...
CONCLUSION The Doris Coal court injected a common-sense presumption into the adjudication process for already-eligible miners seeking coverage for medical care. ...
doi:10.2307/1290498
fatcat:xbnseqrlujehzlp4tbs6hnkyum
Semantic Types for Decomposing Evidence Assessment in Decisions on Veterans' Disability Claims for PTSD
2017
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
This paper presents a semantic analysis for mining arguments or reasoning from the evidence assessment portions (fact-finding portions) of adjudicatory decisions in law. ...
Semantic anchors for this decomposition are provided by identifying the inferential roles of sentencesprincipally evidence sentences, finding-of-fact sentences, evidence-based-reasoning sentences, and ...
Kasting for her research assistance on this project. ...
dblp:conf/icail/WalkerHOA17
fatcat:uedjzgu7urf3hktgnykqca2ade
Recognizing the Full Costs of Care? Compensation for Families in South Africa's Silicosis Class Action
2017
Social and Legal Studies
It focuses on a recent decision by a court in South Africa, (Nkala and Others v Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Others, 2016) that took the unusual step of acknowledging this care work and attempting ...
This article concerns recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines ...
of Appeal granted the mining houses leave to appeal against the decision. ...
doi:10.1177/0964663917739455
fatcat:wnwonnxks5aibnozmytom4bs3a
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