A Pragmatic Legal Expert System - James Popple Most legal expert systems attempt to implement complex models of legal reasoning. This book argues that a complex model is unnecessary. It advocates a simpler, pragmatic approach in which the utility of a legal expert system is evaluated by reference, not to the extent to which it simulates a lawyer's approach to a legal problem, but to the quality of its predictions and of its arguments. The author describes the development of a legal expert system, called SHYSTER, which takes a pragmatic appro... Keywords:SHYSTER; law; legal; expert system; artificial intelligence; jurisprudence Downloads: 180 Average rating:(0 review)