Kevin D. Ashley

Selected Recent Talks

• “Toward Modeling and Teaching Legal Case-based Adaptation with Expert Examples,” Kevin Ashley, ICCBR, 2009.
• “Ontological Requirements for Analogical, Teleological, and Hypothetical Legal Reasoning,” Kevin Ashley, ICAIL, 2009.
• “Toward Modeling Analogical, Teleological, and Hypothetical Legal Reasoning in a Case Microworld,” Kevin Ashley, ICAIL 2009, Case Modeling Workshop.
• “Emerging AI & Law Approaches to Automating Analysis and Retrieval of Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings,” Kevin Ashley and Will Bridewell, ICAIL, 2009, DESI III Workshop.
• “Toward Assessing Law Students’ Argument Diagrams,” Collin Lynch, Kevin Ashley, Niels Pinkwart, Vincent Aleven. ICAIL 2009.
• “What a Legal CBR Ontology Should Provide,” Kevin Ashley, FLAIRS, 2009.
• “Designing Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains,” Kevin Ashley, FLAIRS, 2009.
• “Connecting Hypothesis-testing to Legal Texts,” Kevin Ashley, Invited Talk, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics Natural Language Processing Group. April 8, 2009.
• “Computational Thinking for Lawyers”, Kevin Ashley, Panel Presentation, Computational Thinking for Everyone: A Workshop Series, Keck Center, National Academies, Washington, D.C., February, 2009.
• “Teaching Argumentation with Computers: One step back, two steps forward? ”, Kevin Ashley, Invited Talk, Jurix 2008. ITTIG-CNR, EUI, Florence, Italy December, 2008.
• “A Process Model of Legal Argument with Hypotheticals”, Kevin Ashley, Collin Lynch, Niels Pinkwart, and Vincent Aleven, Jurix 2008. ITTIG-CNR, EUI, Florence, Italy December, 2008.
• “An Approach to Legal Ontologies: the Case-Based Reasoning Perspective”, Kevin Ashley, Jurix 2008 Workshop on Approaches to Legal Ontologies. ITTIG-CNR, EUI, Florence, Italy December, 2008.
• “Issues in Natural Language Engineering for Case-based Legal Argument Instruction”, Kevin Ashley, Jurix 2008 Workshop on Approaches to Legal Ontologies. ITTIG-CNR, EUI, Florence, Italy December, 2008.
• “LARGO, an ITS for Teaching Argumentation with Hypotheticals”, Kevin Ashley, Stage Setting Talk, SubTech 2008 Williamsburg. July 24, 2008.
• “Twists and Turns in Teaching Argumentation with Computers”, Kevin Ashley, Invited talk, AAAI08 Workshop on What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications. Chicago. July 13, 2008.
• “Some Thoughts on Using Computers to Teach Argumentation”, Kevin Ashley, Invited talk to the Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, The 21^st International FLAIRS Conference. May 15-19, 2008. (Abstract, Talk)
• Comment on Lowrance and Josephson Papers, Kevin Ashley, Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings Conference, Cardozo School of Law, January 29-29, 2007.
• Teaching Case Analysis through Framing: Prospects for an ITS in an ill-defined domain, Ilya Goldin, Kevin Ashley, Rosa Pinkus, ITS-2006 Workshop on Ill-Defined Domains.
• An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Law, Kevin Ashley & Tom Gordon, ICAIL-2005 (Ashley’s Part).
• Hypothesis Formation and Testing in Legal Argument. Congreso International de Inteligencia Artificial y Derecho, UNAM, Mexico City, 2006.
• Do Case-Based Models of Legal Reasoning Fit in a Civil Law Context? Int’l Congress of Comparative Cultures and Legal Systems ’04, UNAM, Mexico City, 2004.
• Hypothesis formation and testing in an interpretive domain, shorter version, Intelligent Systems Program Forum. December 2, 2005.
• Hypothesis formation and testing in an interpretive domain, Invited talk to the Cognitive Area Talk, University of Pittsburgh Cognitive Program. November 9, 2005.
• Bridging the Gap Between Abstract Rules and Specific Facts: A Case-Based Approach, Invited Talk at the National Society of Professional Engineers Board of Ethical Review Annual Meeting. October, 2001.
• Progress in Text-Based Case-Based Reasoning, Invited Talk at the Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. Seeon, Germany. July, 1999.
• Bibliography for above talk.
• Progress in Textual Case-Based Reasoning, Invited Talk in the Naval Research Laboratory NCARAI 1999 Seminar Series, Washington, D.C. October, 1999.
• Bibliography for above talk.

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