Sign in
Email


Password


Get an account


Modeling the law as rules

You can add legal content to Jureeka by representing legal principles in the form of rules. Lawyers tend to be pretty good at this because they already think in terms of rules. For example:

CONCLUDE THAT the defendant committed a tort
IF

the defendant had a duty of care toward the plaintiff AND

the defendant breached the duty of care AND

the plaintiff was injured AND

the defendant's breach of the duty of care caused the plaintiff's injury

When rules related to a particular topic are linked together into a "rulebase," an inference engine like Jureeka can use them to generate interviews and derive knowledge.

Legal rulebases are powerful because they make the law more digestible and allow lay people to explore hypothetical scenarios. For example, to find out whether you are eligible for family and medical leave, would you rather read through a 40-page piece of legislation or answer 20 simple questions? Would you rather do your taxes by hand or use a program like TurboTax?