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Expert systems publications (The DataLex Project)

Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales
Last updated 25 August 2017

Recent DataLex Project papers

Greenleaf, G,  Mowbray, A  and Chung, P 'Building Sustainable Free Legal Advisory Systems: Experiences from the History of AI & Law' UNSW Law Research Paper No. 53 (August 17, 2017) (SSRN).

Greenleaf, G  ‘Review Essay: Technology and the professions:  Utopian and dystopian futures' (2017) 40(1) UNSW Law Journal 302-321.

DataLex Project Bibliography 1985-2001

(DataLex, 2001a) Allen, R and Chung, P ‘AIDE inferencing system’ – software (Unix).

(DataLex, 2001) Allen, R, Chung, P, Mowbray, A, and Greenleaf, G (2001) ‘AustLII's Aide – Natural Language Legislative Rulebases’ at Proc. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICIAL) 2001 (SSRN); also ‘AustLII’s Aide – Implementing Rulebase Systems’ [2001] CompLRes 32, as presented at 5th Law via Internet Conference, 2001.  This paper concerns the use of predicate logic in the Aide software.

(DataLex, 2000) Allen, R, Greenleaf, G, Austin, D, Chung, P, and Mowbray, A, (2000), ‘With a Wysh and a Prayer: An Experiment in Cooperative Development of Legal Knowledge Bases’, The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), vol 2 (SSRN); shorter version also published in (1999) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (7 ICAIL), Oslo, Norway (ACM Press).

(DataLex, 1997d) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A, King, G, Cant S, and Chung, P, ‘Rule-based inferencing over the world-wide-web: A tutorial using AustLII's ysh and wysh software’ Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney, 1997 (SSRN) – This is the most detailed step-by-step ‘developer guide’, to be used with the Wysh Developer’s  Manual (1997).

(DataLex, 1997c) King, G and Cant, S ‘WYSH (web-yshell) CGI interface to YSH’  – software (Unix).

(DataLex, 1997b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray A, King, G, Cant, S and Chung, P, (1997) ‘More than Wyshful Thinking: AustLII's Legal Inferencing Via the World Wide Web’ Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Melbourne, ACM Press, New York (SSRN). This is the main paper setting out how the DataLex Project was migrated to the web (and the AustLII context) and the advantages this provided.

(DataLex, 1997a) Mowbray, A, Greenleaf, G, King, G and Cant, S, Wysh Developer's Manual  [1997] COL 1, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1997) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and King, G ‘New Legal Services via the Web - AustLIIs Research on Legal Inferencing’ (Chapter 5 of ‘New Directions in Law Via the Internet: The AustLII Papers', Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT), No. 2, 1997). This was the first paper published about WYSH. (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1997) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A, King, G, Cant, S and Chung, P ‘Copyright law demonstration application’ – computer application, using WYSH, SINO and AustLII Mark-up tools (Unix).

(DataLex, 1996–) Mowbray, A ‘SINO free text search engine’ – software (open source) (Unix) (AustLII).

(DataLex, 1995b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A, King, G, van Dijk, P “Public Access to Law Via Internet: The Australasian Legal Information Institute” [1995] JlLawInfoSci 5; (1995) 6(1) Journal of Law, Information and Science 49 (AustLII). This is the first paper written about AustLII, and shows the influence of DataLex on AustLII’s development.

(DataLex, 1995a) Mowbray, A ‘Info-One alternative system demonstration’ (consultancy project) – AIRS and HYPE application.

(DataLex, 1995) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and van Dijk, P (1995)Representing and Using Legal Knowledge in Integrated Decision Support Systems: Datalex WorkstationsArtificial Intelligence and Law, vol 3, nos 1-2, pp 97-124 (SSRN). This is the major paper summing up the DataLex Project work to 1995 (ie pre-web and pre-AustLII).

(DataLex, 1994c) van Dijk, P (1994) The Australian Insurance Law Workstation LEXeCOM, International Business Communications, Sydney, 1994 (1st Ed, plus updates) – AIRS and HYPE application.

(DataLex, 1994b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and van Dijk, P DataLex WorkStations Developers’ Manual (2nd Ed) DataLex Pty Ltd, 105 pgs (not on SSRN).

(DataLex, 1994a) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and van Dijk, P, (1994), “WorkStations for different learning styles in law”, Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Learning in Law Conference, Law Book Co., Sydney.

(DataLex, 1994) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and van Dijk, P, (1994), DataLex WorkStations User Manual, DataLex Pty Ltd, Sydney, 40 pgs. (not on SSRN) – Included all versions (Windows, Mac, DOS, UNIX); for use with YSH versions of both Privacy Workstation and IP Workstation.

(DataLex, 1993b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A, and van Dijk, P Re-development of the SCALE computerised legal information system (‘SCALE Mk 2) – Report to the Attorney-Generals’ Department, DataLex Pty Ltd, November 1993.

 (DataLex, 1993a) Greenleaf, G and Mowbray, A (1993), “Controlling and augmenting legal inferencing: ysh, a case studyProceedings of the 4th Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Law (Amsterdam 1993), ACM Press, New York, pp162-166 (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1993) Greenleaf, G (Ed), Griffith, P, Mowbray, A and van Dijk, P, (1993-94), “The Intellectual Property Workstation”, Sydney, DataLex Pty Ltd, (1993), 40 MB - computer application (Unix, DOS/Windows, Macintosh) – sold commercially.

(DataLex, 1992c) Tyree, A (1992) 3(1) ‘The logic programming debateJournal of Law and Information Science (AustLII).

(DataLex, 1992b) Greenleaf, G and Mowbray, A, (1992-94), “DataLex Workstation Software - Application Developers Manual (Student DOS version)”, DataLex Pty Ltd, Sydney.

(DataLex, 1992a) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and Tyree A, ‘The Datalex Legal Workstation – Integrating Tools for Lawyers’, (1992) 3(2) Journal of Law and Information Science 219 -240 (SSRN) (also in Proc. Third Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ACM Press, 1991). This 1991 paper was the first to set out the DataLex approach to the theoretical advantages of integration of approaches.

(DataLex, 1992) Greenleaf, G,  The Privacy Workstation’ (1992) 6 International Yearbook of Law Computers and Technology, pp177 – 196 (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1991c) Greenleaf, G and Mowbray, A The Privacy Workstation - User Manual Version 1,07, May 1991, DataLex Pty Ltd, Sydney ( SSRN).

(DataLex, 1991b) Greenleaf, G (Ed), Mowbray A, Gunning P and van Dijk P, (1991-94), The Privacy Workstation, DataLex Pty Ltd, Sydney, 6 MB - computer application (Unix, DOS/Windows, Macintosh) – sold commercially.

(DataLex, 1991a) Mowbray, A ‘DataLex Workstation system’ – software (Unix, DOS/Windows, Macintosh) (integration of YSH, AIRS and HYPE into one package).

(DataLex, 1991) Mowbray, A ‘YSH (y-shell) inferencing system’ – software (Unix).

 (DataLex, 1990a) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and Tyree A ‘Legal workstations — integrating tools for lawyersAustralasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference, Canberra, September 1990 (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1990) Greenleaf, G ‘Computerisation of public administration and the rule of law’ Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference, Canberra, September 1990.

(DataLex, 1989d) Tyree, A Expert Systems in Law  (Prentice Hall (Aust), 1989).

(DataLex, 1989c) Greenleaf, Graham, ‘Legal Expert Systems - Robot Lawyers? (An Introduction to Knowledge-Based Applications to Law)  Proc. Australian Legal Convention, Darling Harbour, Sydney, August 1989 (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1989b) Mowbray, A and Greenleaf, G ‘LAWS OF AUSTRALIA Defamation  demonstration’ – HYPE and AIRS application (Unix).

(DataLex, 1989a) Mowbray, A ‘HYPE hypertext system’ – software (Unix).

(DataLex, 1989) Tyree, A, Greenleaf, G, and Mowbray, A ‘Generating legal arguments’ Knowledge-Based Systems Volume 2, Issue 1, March 1989, Pages 46-51 (SSRN). This is one of the most detailed papers about the FINDER application of PANNDA.

(DataLex, 1988c) Mowbray, A, Greenleaf, G, Tyree, A & Lewis, D (1988), ‘Teaching Lawyers Online Retrieval: The AIRS Training System.’, pp. 96-102.

(DataLex, 1988b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and Lewis, D Australasian Legal Information Retrieval Handbook, Butterworths, 1988; Ch 2 Basic principles of legal information retrieval; Ch 3 Improved retrieval and storage techniques; Ch 4 Legal information retrieval in Australia (AustLII).

(DataLex, 1988a) Tyree, A, Greenleaf, G and Mowbray, A (1988) ‘Legal Reasoning: the Problem of Precedent’ in J Gero & R Stanton (Eds) Artificial Intelligence Developments & Applications, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988, pgs 231–247 (not on SSRN).

(DataLex, 1988) Greenleaf, G, Tyree, A and Mowbray, A (1988) ‘Communications Aspects of Legal Expert Systems — Incorporating Them in Shells for LawyersProceedings of the National Conference on Law, Computers & Artificial Intelligence University of Exeter, United Kingdom, November 1988, 10pgs (SSRN).

(DataLex, 1987c) Greenleaf, G and Griffith, P ‘COPYRITA – copyright law inferencing system’ (LES application).

(DataLex, 1987b) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and Tyree, A (1987) ‘Legal Expert Systems: Words, Words Words...?' Yearbook of Law Computers & Technology Vol.3, 1987, 119–136, Butterworths (UK) (SSRN). This is a much-expanded  version of the Boston ICAIL paper, including details of the COPYRITA, INTEST and FINDER applications, and the LES, AIRS and PANNDA software.

(DataLex, 1987a) Greenleaf, G, Mowbray, A and Tyree, A (1987) Expert Systems in Law: The DataLex Project  (Proc. First Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ACM Press, 1987) (SSRN) The first paper about the DataLex Project, and the first paper presented (with a demo of LES) at the first ICAIL Conference, Boston, 1987.

(DataLex, 1987) Tyree, A ‘FINDER: an expert system in law’  (1987?) (unpublished) (AustLII).

(DataLex, 1986) Tyree, A ‘Will Justice Fall to Bits? Expert Systems and Law’ (1986) 62 Current Affairs Bulletin 13-18 (AustLII).

(DataLex, 1985c) Tyree, A  ‘FINDER – finding cases inferencing system’ – FINDER application.

(DataLex, 1985b) Mowbray, A  ‘INTEST – Intestacy legal inferencing system’ – LES application.

(DataLex, 1985a) Tyree, A ‘PANNDA (precedent analysis by nearest-neighbour discriminant analysis) inferencing system’ – software.

(DataLex, 1985) Mowbray, A ‘AIRS retrieval system’ – software (Unix, DOS/Windows).

(DataLex, 1985) Mowbray, A ‘LES inferencing system’ – software (Unix).