Servants or Masters? Linguistic Aids in Legal Interpretation

Partner Technologies: an alternative to technology masters & servants

There are activities where a dynamic, creative partnership among equals seems like an appropriate model of empowerment. Not only do good partnerships seem to help people attain or sustain powerful engagement in their current activities, in some cases they seem to enable people to successfully enter new activities. In this paper we describe our initial work to develop partner technologies. Using...

Computers in audit: servants or sirens?

In Greek mythology the song of the Sirens was of such beauty and promise that no sailor could resist steering his ship towards them. Instead of the promised heaven, however, the route led to disaster upon the rocks. Audit has developed rapidly over the past three years in Britain from an activity carried out by only a few enthusiasts'4 to one in which all doctors are enjoined to take part.5 Pro...

Interpretation Across Legal Systems

In this paper we extend a formal framework presented in [6] to model reasoning across legal systems. In particular, we propose a logical system that encompasses the various interpretative interactions occurring between legal systems in the context of private international law. This is done by introducing meta-rules to reason with interpretive canons.

Linguistic methods in communication aids

Interpretation of Linguistic Architecture

The megamodeling language MegaL is designed to model the linguistic architecture of software systems: the relationships between software artifacts (e.g., files), software languages (e.g., programming languages), and software technologies (e.g., code generators) used in a system. The present paper delivers a form of interpretation for such megamodels: resolution of megamodel elements to resource...