• L. Karl Branting, Name Matching in Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism, ICAIL 2005 Workshop on Data Mining, Information Extraction, and Evidentiary Reasoning for Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism June 11, 2005 Bologna, Italy PDF
Abstract: Name matching is an important task in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. This paper briefly describes the nature of the name-matching task, enumerates typical name-matching applications, explains the technical challenges posed by name-matching, and sets forth several important approaches to these technical challenges.
  • Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Ralph Bergmann, and Karl Branting, Conference Report on the Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, AI Magazine 22:1, Spring 2001. (ICCBR'99)

Abstract: The Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning was held at the Seeon Monastery, Bavaria, July 27-30, 1999. About 120 researchers from 21 countries attended. The conference included four workshops, three invited talks, 24 technical presentations, a poster session, and an Industry Day, where the focus was on mature technologies and applications in industry.

  • L. Karl Branting, Four Challenges for Computational Models of Legal Precedent. Appearing in special issue of THINK (magazine of the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence at Katholike Universiteit Tilburg) on legal knowledge-based systems, Volume 3, June 1994.

Abstract: Identifying the open research issues in a field is a necessary step for progress in that field. This paper describes four open research problems in computational models of precedent-based legal reasoning: relating case representation to precedent use; modeling the selection and construction of both arguments based on pairwise case comparison and multiple-precedent arguments; modeling the process whereby purposes, policies, and principles are used in case similarity assessment; and extending the applicability of precedents to tasks other than classification.