Rule-Based Inferencing Over the World-Wide-Web: A Tutorial Using AustLII's Wysh Server
Australasian Legal Information Institute. Sydney (1997)
22 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2017
Date Written: June 17, 1997
Abstract
This 1997 Tutorial is a step-by-step introduction to the use of the software developed by the DataLex Project to build rule-based legal expert systems integrated with hypertext and text retrieval. ‘Wysh’ is the interface software used by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) to enable the DataLex software to operate over the web.
The contents are as follows:
1. Aims of the tutorial.
2. Demonstrations of inferencing using Wysh
3. ‘Goal Tests’ - Examples of backward & forward chaining rules
4. Writing a very simple rulebase using Wysh - tutorial project
5. Running Wysh rulebases using Wysh
6. Extending the Wysh rulebase
7. Error checking in your rulebase
8. Publishing rulebases on web pages
9. Expanding your Wysh rulebase
10. Hypertext links from Wysh rulebases
11. ‘Co-operative inferencing’ - rulebases on multiple pages
12. Document generation
13. Case-based inferencing using PANNDA
The Tutorial is designed to be used with the Wysh Developer's Manual (1997):
Keywords: legal expert systems, AI and law, artificial intellgence, rule-based reasoning, AustLII, DataLex, Australia
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