Knowledge-based Systems for Representing Legal Norms

Jon Bing NRCCL, Norway

Description

Knowledge-based systems in jurisprudence is a research field of its own, in which the main discussion centres around how legal norms can be represented within a computer system. Those norms are usually represented using natural language (claims that legal parlance is not natural notwithstanding). There are exciting challenges involved in making these representations more formal – and this is a requirement for executive work in today’s mass administration where most individual administrative decisions are based on systems that have been wholly or partially automated.

Language: Norwegian