Loge-expert: Strategies to integrate legal knowledge modelization, non-expert user interface, and textual data base into the development of an expert system in law

摘要

This paper presents three problems that have been under exploration for the last 2 years. The first concern modelization and formalization of legal knowledge. The second refers to the communication between the user and the machine, since an expert system in Housing law oriented towards the general population is developed. The third problem relates to the textual data base we have built in order to document the knowledge base of Loge-expert. At the moment it contains some of the textual legal sources traditionally used by lawyers. From this 2-year experiment with Loge-expert, we have learned that the development of an expert system in law is an iterative operation that includes simultaneous exploration of different dimensions, such as the coceptualization of the specific legal field as well as the conceptualization of the communication devices between that legal expertise and the user or the conceptualization of the liguistic and textual dimensions of that legal expertise.