"The big shifting point in my mentality was that I decided it wasn't essential to me, or essential to my sense of identity, to be considered a lawyer or to work in a traditional legal career." ~ Lauryn Kerr Lauryn Kerr (@lauryn_kerr) has a legal innovator’s dream job as in-house counsel for a world-leading online... Continue Reading →
This is episode 4 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It considers how the openness principle, as commonly applied in our justice system, can come into conflict with considerations like information privacy and new technology. Topics covered: An introduction to the openness principle as it’s applied in our court processes.Theoretical and jurisprudential underpinnings of the... Continue Reading →
This is episode 3 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It's all about the capacity of online dispute resolution (ODR) to handle human emotion in the conflict resolution process. Course Topics for this episode: Brief introduction to online dispute resolution (ODR). The impacts of emotions on disputes on conflict situations. The state of current research... Continue Reading →
This is episode 2 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It's all about online dispute resolution, also called ODR. Topics covered: A definition of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).Types of communication channels involved in ODR.Comparisons and contrasts between ODR and electronic court document filing.The history of ODR.The use of technology for digitization, as opposed to innovation... Continue Reading →
This is episode 1 of my Continuing Professional Development podcast. It’s just a pilot episode that explains what this is all about. Listen to "1 Pilot Episode" on Spreaker. I plan to use quizzes to try and qualify you for CPD credits. Take a sample quiz here.
My Continuing Professional Development (CPD) podcast is now in the experimentation phase! I've been thinking about doing this a long time. Seriously. I'm talking years here. The basic idea is to merge the benefits of podcasting with the desire of lawyers to continuously learn and develop. Oh, and qualify for CPD credits, of course. Podcasts... Continue Reading →
This post covers the work phases required to create and deploy a working expert system knowledge base. Pre-work We've already covered a lot of the steps that happen before knowledge engineering actually starts. They include things like orientation, scoping and prototyping. Raw content creation This is the big part! Knowledge engineers work with subject matter... Continue Reading →
There are different ways to model or structure the expert knowledge in a technology-based system. Some of the approaches are actually quite complicated and theoretical. At least they seem that way to me. The approach I take to knowledge engineering is what I believe to be quite a simple approach. In my view, knowledge engineering... Continue Reading →
In addition to the conditional rules that turn a knowledge base into an expert system capable of providing reasoning and guidance, it's possible to provide other things. These other elements are also in the knowledge base, and are meant to benefit users. Information There are a few ways to provide information to users, depending on... Continue Reading →
[Want to read the post on Questions first? It's here] Expert systems use logic-based rules to make conclusions in a given domain. Offering these conclusions in the form of 'answers' to questions makes it easy for users to navigate through the system's knowledge base without having to worry about rules and logic. Answers are also the... Continue Reading →
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