Publications

Most of these papers are available from the authors' homepage. If the paper can not be downloaded, the first author will be happy to make sure that you receive the paper when contacted by email.

Intelligent Tutoring

Vincent Aleven. Case-Based Reasoning. To appear in: Informatietechnologie voor Juristen - Een handboek voor juristen in de 21-ste eeuw, edited by A. Lodder and A. Oskamp. Deventer, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (In Dutch.)

Vincent Aleven, and Kevin D. Ashley. Teaching Case-Based Argumentation Through a Model and Examples: Empirical Evaluation of an Intelligent Learning Environment. In Artificial Intelligence in Education, Proceedings of AI-ED 97 World Conference, edited by B. du Boulay and R. Mizoguchi, 87-94. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1997.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. Evaluating a Learning Environment for Case-Based Argumentation Skills. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL-97, 170-179. New York: ACM, 1997.

Kevin D. Ashley and Vincent Aleven. Reasoning Symbolically about Partially Matched Cases. In Proceedings IJCAI 97, the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, edited by M. Pollack, 335-341. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. How Different is Different? Arguing about the Significance of Similarities and Differences. In Advances in Case-Based Reasoning: Proceedings of the Third European Workshop, EWCBR-96, edited by I. Smith and B. Faltings, 1-15. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1168. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1996.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. Doing Things with Factors. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 31-41. New York: ACM, 1995.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. Using a Well-Structured Model to Teach in an Ill-Structured Domain. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 419-424. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. An Instructional Environment for Practicing Argumentation Skills. In AAAI-94: Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 485-492. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1994.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. What Law Students Need to Know to WIN. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 152-161. New York: ACM, 1993. Reprinted in the International Yearbook of Law Computers and Technology, Volume 8, edited by R. P. Jones and K. V. Russell, 115-129. Abingdon, UK: Carfax Publishing Co., 1994

Kevin D, Ashley and Vincent Aleven. A Logical Representation for Relevance Criteria. In Topics in Case-Based Reasoning; Selected Papers from the First European Workshop, EWCBR-93, edited by S. Wess, K. D. Althoff, and M. M. Richter, 338-352. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 837. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. Automated Generation of Examples for a Tutorial in Case-Based Argumentation. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS '92, edited by C. Frasson, G. Gauthier, and G. I. McCalla, 575-584. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1992.

Kevin D. Ashley and V. Aleven. Generating Dialectical Examples Automatically. In AAAI-92: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 654-660. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1992.

Kevin D. Ashley and Vincent Aleven. Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Teaching Law Students to Argue with Cases. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 42-52. New York: ACM, 1991.

Kevin D. Ashley and Vincent Aleven. A Computational Approach to Explaining Case-Based Concepts of Relevance in a Tutorial Context. In Case-Based Reasoning, Proceedings of a Workshop, 257-268. Distributed by Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1991.

Kevin D. Ashley and Vincent Aleven. Evaluating a Case Argument Tutorial Program with a First Year Legal Writing Section. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Substantive Technology in the Law School and Law Practice, 110-116, University of Montreal, 1996. (Non-refereed publication.)

Vincent Aleven and Kevin D. Ashley. An Empirical Evaluation of a Case Argument Tutorial Program. In First Carnegie Mellon UniversitySymposium on Technology Enhanced Learning, May, 1996. (Abstract.)

Textual Case-Based Reasoning

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. The Role of Information Extraction for Textual CBR. In: Aha, D.W., Watson, I. & Yang, Q. (Editors). Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: Proceedings of the 4th. International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-01). Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver, Canada, August 2001.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Improving the Representation of Legal Case Texts with Information Extraction Methods. In: Henry Prakken and Ron Loui (editors). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-2001). St. Louis, MO.

Stefanie Bruninghaus. Adding Background Knowledge to Classification-Based Indexing of Legal Cases. Research Summary for AAAI-01 Doctoral Consortium, to be held at IJCAI-01.

Kevin D. Ashley. Applying Textual Case-based Reasoning and Information Extraction in Lessons Learned Systems. Invited Paper in: Aha, D.W., & Weber, R. (Eds.) Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems: Papers from the 2000 Workshop (Technical Report WS-00-03). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2000.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Bootstrapping Case Base Development with Annotated Case Summaries In: Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Ralph Bergmann and L. Karl Branting (editors). Case-Based Reasoning Research and Applications. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-99). Kloster Seeon, Muenchen, Germany, 1999.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Toward Adding Knowledge to Learning Algorithms for Indexing Legal Cases In: Thomas Gordon (editor). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. Oslo, Norway, 1999.

Stefanie Brüninghaus. Case-Based Reasoning From Textual Documents (Extended Abstract for Invited Talk). In: Proceedings of the Sixth German Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (GWCBR-98). Pages 55-58. Berlin, Germany, 1998.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Evaluation of Textual CBR Approaches. In: Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning (AAAI Technical Report WS-98-12). Pages 30-34. Madison, WI, 1998.

Kevin D. Ashley and Stefanie Brüninghaus. Developing Mapping and Evaluation Techniques for Textual CBR. In: Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning (AAAI Technical Report WS-98-12). Pages 20 - 23. Madison, WI, 1998.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. How Machine Learning Can be Beneficial for Textual Case-Based Reasoning. In: Proceedings of the AAAI-98/ICML-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization (AAAI Technical Report WS-98-05). Pages 71-74. Madison, WI, 1998.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Finding Factors: Learning to Classify Case Opinions Under Abstract Fact Categories. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-97). Pages 123-131. Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Using Machine Learning to Assign Indices to Legal Cases. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. Pages 303-314. Providence, RI, 1997.

Kevin D. Ashley and Stefanie Brüninghaus. A Brief Review of a Case Index for the CISG. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on a Legal Expert System for the CISG. Pages 28-42. Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

Stefanie Brüninghaus and Kevin D. Ashley. Using Machine Learning to Assign Indices to Legal Cases.In: Proceedings of the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Practical Applications of CBR. Kobe, Japan, 1997.

Kevin D. Ashley and Stefanie Brüninghaus. Representing Methods of Legal Analysis Imposed by Treaties and Statutes In: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on an Expert System for the CISG. Pages 26-40. College Park, MD, 1995.

Ethical Reasoning

Bruce McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Helping a CBR Program Know What it Knows. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-01).Vancouver, Canada, August 2001.

Kevin D. Ashley and Bruce M. McLaren. An AI Investigation of Citation's Epistemological Role. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. St. Louis, Missouri. May 2001.

Goldin, Ilya M., Kevin D. Ashley, Rosa L. Pinkus. Introducing PETE: Computer Support for Teaching Ethics. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. St. Louis, Missouri. May 21-25, 2001.

Bruce M. McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Assessing Relevance with Extensionally Defined Principles and Cases; McLaren, B. M. and Ashley, K. D., In the Proceedings of AAAI-2000. Austin, Texas, August, 2000.

Bruce M. McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Case Representation, Acquisition, and Retrieval in SIROCCO. Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Munich, Germany, July, 1999.

Bruce M. McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Exploring the Dialectic Between Abstract Rules and Concrete Facts: Operationalizing Principles and Cases in Engineering Ethics; McLaren, B. M. and Ashley, K. D., In the Proceedings from the European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning. Dublin, Ireland, September, 1998.

Kevin D. Ashley and Bruce M. McLaren. Reasoning with Reasons in Case-Based Comparisons. In the Proceedings From the First International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, October, 1995, Sesimbra, Portugal.

Bruce M. McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Case-Based Comparative Evaluation in TRUTH-TELLER. In the Proceedings From the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July, 1995, Pittsburgh, PA.

Bruce M. McLaren and Kevin D. Ashley. Context Sensitive Case Comparisons in Practical Ethics: Reasoning about Reasons. In the Proceedings From the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, May, 1995, College Park, Maryland

Kevin D. Ashley and Bruce M. McLaren. A CBR Knowledge Representation for Practical Ethics. In the Proceedings From the Second European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, November, 1994, Chantilly, France. To be published in M. Keane, editor. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag: Berlin

Kevin D. Ashley and Bruce M. McLaren. Evaluating Comparative Evaluation Models. In the Proceedings From the Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, AAAI-94, August, 1994, Seattle, Washington.

Stefanie Brüninghaus

University of Pittsburgh

steffi@pitt.edu