Wysh Developer's Manual

Mowbray, Andrew; Greenleaf, Graham; King, Geoffrey; Cant, Simon

Wysh Developer's Manual

AustLII (1997) 'Wysh Developer's Manual' [1997] COL 1, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney

50 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2017

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Andrew Mowbray

University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Law

Graham Greenleaf

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law

This was the most comprehensive developer's manual for legal expert systems application development using the Wysh version of the DataLex Project inferencing software (Ysh), which from 1995 was developed by AustLII to work in the web environment, integrated with the legal texts on the AustLII by automated hypertext linking and text retrieval.

The theory behind the Wysh approach is set out in 'Controlling and augmenting legal inferencing: ysh, a case study' (1993):

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2986077,

and in 'More than Wyshful Thinking: AustLII's Legal Inferencing Via the World Wide Web' (1997):

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2187250,

and 'With a Wysh and a Prayer: An Experiment in Cooperative Development of Legal Knowledge Bases' (2001):

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2680507.

Keywords: AI & law, artificial intelligence, AustLII, Australia, hypertext, text retrieval, expert systems, document generation

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Mowbray, Andrew and Greenleaf, Graham and King, Geoffrey and Cant, Simon, Wysh Developer's Manual (June 14, 1997). AustLII (1997) 'Wysh Developer's Manual' [1997] COL 1, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Sydney. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2986144