Guiding lawyers: mapping law into hypertext
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Wilson, Eve
- Source
- Artificial Intelligence Review; June 1992, Vol. 6 Issue: 2 p161-189, 29p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 02692821; 15737462
This paper looks at some common structures for legal documents and describes how these structures can be mapped automatically into the Guide hyper-text system. Next it considers the types of cross references contained in a document and how they can be mapped into the links that integrate disparate independent hierarchical documents into a seamless directed graph universe of text. Next comes a discussion of how to accommodate multiple versions of a document, two-way references and footnotes. This is followed by a consideration of two access methods: cumulative index and boolean query. Finally we look at texts which help the lawyer create an original document: precedent books for drafting.