SELECT TOPICS IN LEGAL EVIDENCE AND ASSISTANCE BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES.

It was only in the first decade of the new century that the field of legal evidence became visible within artificial intelligence and the law (AI & Law), a thriving discipline that had developed during the previous three decades, from early concern with deontic logic to an array of both practical and theoretical approaches. In this article, we discuss a number of topics within computing for legal evidence. The average practitioner of knowledge-based systems will need no specialistic background knowledge in the legal domain, to benefit from this overview. The field is novel, yet a mass of research has already been published. It has not been previously organized in the manner presented here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]