SHYSTER-MYCIN: A hybrid legal expert system

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O'Callaghan, Thomas A.
Popple, James
McCreath, Eric

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SHYSTER-MYCIN combines a case-based legal expert system (SHYSTER) with a rule-based expert system (MYCIN) to form a hybrid legal expert system. MYCIN's reporting has been improved for use with SHYSTER-MYCIN to provide more useful information about the system's conclusions.SHYSTER-MYCIN's output was tested against that of a group of lawyers, not expert in the test domain (Australian copyright law). This allowed the system's reasoning, rather than its depth of knowledge, to be tested. Testing indicates that SHYSTER-MYCIN's approach to the law - -using a rule-based system to reason with legislation and a case-based system to reason with cases - -is appropriate.

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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-03)

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