Being a hype word, AI has many definitions & expectations. The following description is refreshing in the midst of a hype! So what is artificial intelligence? The truth is, it’s not a science in the common sense of the word. Rather, it’s an aspirational concept that doesn’t quite fit today’s realities. Modern artificial intelligence is …
Two questions are of importance when discussing legal information retrieval: In my opinion, the triad of these building blocks – legal theory, technology and users – has to be taken into consideration when one asks how legal information retrieval can be improved. Carol Kuhlthau said in 1991: There appears to be a gap between the …
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Continuing on the subject of context ….. […] the major different cognitive structures of individual users […] may be represented to intermediary mechanisms and IR systems, e.g. the actual work task or interest leading to a current cognitive state which may end up in a problem or uncertainty state for the actual user. These mental …
This post was originally written in preparation for a conference by the Trust for Legal Information (Stiftelsen för rättsinformation) on ‘Law as a Service’. Being inspired by last year’s VQ Forum, and an blog post titled ‘I Am Now an App™ by Jason Wilson, I would like to share some ideas and thoughts. When we …
A growing amount of legal information is in itself not a bad thing. Though quantity is not to be confused with quality, more data increases the chances of finding information that is applicable to one’s question. The challenge is, however, how to access this information. Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a …
A video presentation of the project can be found here. As the project was organized in cooperation with the Internet Archive, a list of electronic books can also be found here. Nice to see that not only Google can initiate projects of this kind. The Library of Congress already has a rather impressive archive of digitalized material (see their Digital …
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