Logic programming for large scale applications in law: A formalisation of supplementary benefit legislation
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, G. O. Robinson, Tom Routen, Marek J. Sergot · 1987
INTRODUCIIONThe papct describes a project which began in April 1986 on the representation in logic of a large portion of the United Kingdom's welfare law; specifically the legislation relating to 'Supplementary Benefit'.The paper describes the nature of the legislation and the kinds of tasks which the ,epftsentation is intended to support, reports on the progress of the project so far, and describes some of the knowledge representation problems that have arisen and how we propose to overcome them.The principal aim of the paper is to elaborate on our use of logic programming techniques for applications in law, and on our view of how executable logical models of law can be used to support various aspects of legal reasoning.