Context Sensitive Awareness in Legal Hypertext

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1. Introduction - 2. Types of Awareness - 2.1. Conscious Reasoning as Connections - 2.2. Hypertext Connections Need to Reflect Real-world Links - Law as Structure of Identifiable Objects and Relationships - 3.1. Objects and Sub objects - 3.2. Connections in the Law - 3.2. Connections in the Law - 4.1. Adjointness - 4.1.1. Adjointness between Text and Image Data - 4.2. Intension-Extension Mapping - Foemal Contextual Sensitiyity - 5.1. Limits, Colimks and Context - 6. The Hypertext Lattice as a Heyting Algebsa - 7. Awareness in Hypertext - 7.1. Contextual Awareness - 7.2. Awareness Model - 7.3. Relative and Dynamic Contexts - 8. Conclusions - References

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Context Sensitive Awareness in Legal Hypertext

1. Introduction

Early hypertext with preset buttons whether determined algorithmically or by human Intervention needs to be upgrades -to be useful for law with provision for dynamic links to be make in context at run time. The current state of the art [Nielsen 1990] is to use dynamic frames but these are more to do with formatting displays rather than for connecting and identifying relevant content. The hypertext markup to related material elsewhere on the Web [Manager 1995] but the user has to provide the means for identifying the material,

However, users need be assured of the quality of their legal information system. The quality controller like in any industrial process has to be at a separate supervisory level This is a trigger mechanism in the system to identify relevant information in context and is also a self awareness where the information checks itself for completeness and its own limitations. Intelligent hypertext is an initial step at this level but intelligence is insufficient without a layer of consciousness. The quality assurance level is a closure Over all participating sub-systems, whether local to the end-user or global and belonging to the information providers.

The information in the subsystems may come in any form or format. Of great importance for law is the image data found in multimedia for the large quantities of documents that are being input by scanners in legal case [Chepalis 1994], A hypertext system that cannot search, identify and retrieve the contents of documents held as image bits has little value for lawyers. A move in this direction to provide features for heterogeneous data can be seen in systems like HyperNet [Marovac & Osbum 1992].

Without proper procedures, the less paper office czxi result in a loss cf integrity. To ensure consistency, some formal model is needed to underpin the interoperable subsystems [Heather & Rossiter (in press)], As information systems are real-world and open, the models need to be drawn from con- structive mathematics [Heather & Rossiter 1994] where intuitionistic logic seems to be able to give ...

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