Vern R. Walker

30 papers C 11Journal 6Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 C conf
Automated Mapping of Legal Criteria to the Texts of Adjudicatory Decisions Using LLMs.
ICAIL
Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Jaromír Savelka
2023 — conf
Toward Implementation Science: A Case Study Using LA-MPS to Research Argument Elements at Scale.
ASAIL@ICAIL
Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong
2022 J jnl
Data-Centric Machine Learning in the Legal Domain.
CoRR
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2022 C conf
Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts.
JURIX
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2022 J jnl
Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts.
CoRR
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2021 J jnl
Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain.
CoRR
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2021 C conf
Data-Centric Machine Learning: Improving Model Performance and Understanding Through Dataset Analysis.
JURIX
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2021 — ed.
Joint Proceedings of the Workshops on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text (ASAIL 2021) & AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2021) held online in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2021), São Paolo, Brazil (held online), June 21 & 25, 2021.
ASAIL/LegalAIIA@ICAIL
Kevin D. Ashley, Katie Atkinson, Luther Karl Branting, Enrico Francesconi, Matthias Grabmair, Vern R. Walker, Bernhard Waltl, Adam Zachary Wyner, Jack G. Conrad, Jeremy Pickens, Jason R. Baron, Hans Henseler, Daniel W. Linna Jr., Jyothi K. Vinjumur
2021 J jnl
Sentence Embeddings and High-speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents.
CoRR
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2020 — conf
Automating the Classification of Finding Sentences for Linguistic Polarity.
ASAIL@JURIX
Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong, Vern E. Walker
2020 — ed.
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text held online in conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, ASAIL@JURIX 2020, December 9, 2020.
ASAIL@JURIX
Kevin D. Ashley, Katie Atkinson, Luther Karl Branting, Enrico Francesconi, Matthias Grabmair, Vern R. Walker, Bernhard Waltl, Adam Zachary Wyner
2020 C conf
Sentence Embeddings and High-Speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents.
JURIX
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2019 — conf
Automatic Classification of Rhetorical Roles for Sentences: Comparing Rule-Based Scripts with Machine Learning.
ASAIL@ICAIL
Vern R. Walker, Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt, Alexandra M. Davidson, Marysa Linares, Domenick J. Pesce
2019 C conf
Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain.
JURIX
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2019 — ed.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts co-located with the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019), Montreal, QC, Canada, June 21, 2019.
ASAIL@ICAIL
Kevin D. Ashley, Katie Atkinson, Luther Karl Branting, Enrico Francesconi, Matthias Grabmair, Bernhard Waltl, Vern R. Walker, Adam Zachary Wyner
2019 C conf
Using Factors to Predict and Analyze Landlord-Tenant Decisions to Increase Access to Justice.
ICAIL
Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2018 — conf
Evidence Types, Credibility Factors, and Patterns or Soft Rules for Weighing Conflicting Evidence: Argument Mining in the Context of Legal Rules Governing Evidence Assessment.
ArgMining@EMNLP
Vern R. Walker, Dina Foerster, Julia Monica Ponce, Matthew Rosen
2018 — ed.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts co-located with the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2017), London, UK, June 16, 2017.
ASAIL@ICAIL
Kevin D. Ashley, Katie Atkinson, Luther Karl Branting, Enrico Francesconi, Matthias Grabmair, Marc Lauritsen, Vern R. Walker, Adam Zachary Wyner
2017 — ed.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, ArgMining@EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 8, 2017
ArgMining@EMNLP
Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych, Kevin D. Ashley, Claire Cardie, Nancy L. Green, Diane J. Litman, Georgios Petasis, Chris Reed, Noam Slonim, Vern R. Walker
2017 — conf
Semantic Types for Decomposing Evidence Assessment in Decisions on Veterans' Disability Claims for PTSD.
ASAIL@ICAIL
Vern R. Walker, Ashtyn Hemendinger, Nneka Okpara, Tauseef Ahmed
2017 C conf
Semantic types for computational legal reasoning: propositional connectives and sentence roles in the veterans' claims dataset.
ICAIL
Vern R. Walker, Ji Hae Han, Xiang Ni, Kaneyasu Yoseda
2015 C conf
Introducing LUIMA: an experiment in legal conceptual retrieval of vaccine injury decisions using a UIMA type system and tools.
ICAIL
Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Ran Chen, Preethi Sureshkumar, Chen Wang, Eric Nyberg, Vern R. Walker
2015 — ch.
Representing the Logic of Statutory Rules in the United States.
Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking
Vern R. Walker, Bernadette C. Lopez, Matthew T. Rutchik, Julie L. Agris
2014 — conf
Annotating Patterns of Reasoning about Medical Theories of Causation in Vaccine Cases: Toward a Type System for Arguments.
ArgMining@ACL
Vern R. Walker, Karina Vazirova, Cass Sanford
2013 C conf
From Information Retrieval (IR) to Argument Retrieval (AR) for Legal Cases: Report on a Baseline Study.
JURIX
Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
2013 C conf
Toward constructing evidence-based legal arguments using legal decision documents and machine learning.
ICAIL
Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
2011 J jnl
A framework for the extraction and modeling of fact-finding reasoning from legal decisions: lessons from the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus.
Artif. Intell. Law
Vern R. Walker, Nathaniel Carie, Courtney C. DeWitt, Eric Lesh
2009 C conf
Plausibility schemas: templates for legal factfinding.
ICAIL
Vern R. Walker
2006 — conf
A Default-Logic Framework for Legal Reasoning in Multiagent Systems.
AAAI Fall Symposium: Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents
Vern R. Walker
2001 J jnl
Complexity, transparency, and the warranted use of formal systems in legal factfinding.
Artif. Intell. Law
Vern R. Walker