Knowledge-based approaches to government benefits analysis
Marc Lauritsen · 1991
Determiningthe government benefits to which clients may be entitled and constructing optimal benefits plans are complex cognitive tasks requiring distinctively legal forms of expertise.Artificial systems that can perform parts of these tasks are of both immense practical value and significant research interest in legal informatics.Building such systems moreover offers insights into how lawyers reason (or should reason) about benefits maximization.This article characterizes the possibilities and problems of modelling the knowledge of the benefits practitioner, highlights aspects of that effort that seem to require artificial intelligence techniques, and sketches an analytical framework in which prior and ongoing work can be structured.A working system created by the author that exhibits some of the desired behavior is described: