SEPPHORIS: An augmented hypergraph‐grammar representation for events, stipulations, and legal prescriptions
Ephraim Nissan · Information & Communications Technology Law · 1995
SEPPHORIS is a knowledge representation formalism for descriptions, stipulations, or prescriptions, where the normative and the narrative are intertwined. The representation is illustrated using exemplification on a particular paragraph from an ancient source, the Mishnah, a cornerstone of the Jewish canonic law. The paragraph poses a certain problem—Paschal lambs ran away and cannot be identified individually—along with a solution‐cum‐prescription with a mathematical flavour.