Vern R. Walker

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2001-2023
Publications (10 Years): 16

Top Topics

Machine Learning

Conceptual Retrieval

Text Classification

Legal Reasoning

Top Venues

Publications

Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong
Toward Implementation Science: A Case Study Using LA-MPS to Research Argument Elements at Scale. ASAIL@ICAIL (2023)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts. CoRR (2022)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts. JURIX (2022)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Data-Centric Machine Learning in the Legal Domain. CoRR (2022)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Data-Centric Machine Learning: Improving Model Performance and Understanding Through Dataset Analysis. JURIX (2021)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Sentence Embeddings and High-speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents. CoRR (2021)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain. CoRR (2021)
Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong, Vern E. Walker
Automating the Classification of Finding Sentences for Linguistic Polarity. ASAIL@JURIX (2020)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Sentence Embeddings and High-Speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents. JURIX (2020)
Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Using Factors to Predict and Analyze Landlord-Tenant Decisions to Increase Access to Justice. ICAIL (2019)
Hannes Westermann, Jaromír Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain. JURIX (2019)
Vern R. Walker, Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt, Alexandra M. Davidson, Marysa Linares, Domenick J. Pesce
Automatic Classification of Rhetorical Roles for Sentences: Comparing Rule-Based Scripts with Machine Learning. ASAIL@ICAIL (2019)
Vern R. Walker, Dina Foerster, Julia Monica Ponce, Matthew Rosen
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 (2018)
Vern R. Walker, Ashtyn Hemendinger, Nneka Okpara, Tauseef Ahmed
Semantic Types for Decomposing Evidence Assessment in Decisions on Veterans' Disability Claims for PTSD. ASAIL@ICAIL (2017)
Vern R. Walker, Ji Hae Han, Xiang Ni, Kaneyasu Yoseda
Semantic types for computational legal reasoning: propositional connectives and sentence roles in the veterans' claims dataset. ICAIL (2017)
Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Ran Chen, Preethi Sureshkumar, Chen Wang, Eric Nyberg, Vern R. Walker
Introducing LUIMA: an experiment in legal conceptual retrieval of vaccine injury decisions using a UIMA type system and tools. ICAIL (2015)
Vern R. Walker, Karina Vazirova, Cass Sanford
Annotating Patterns of Reasoning about Medical Theories of Causation in Vaccine Cases: Toward a Type System for Arguments. ArgMining@ACL (2014)
Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
From Information Retrieval (IR) to Argument Retrieval (AR) for Legal Cases: Report on a Baseline Study. JURIX (2013)
Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
Toward constructing evidence-based legal arguments using legal decision documents and machine learning. ICAIL (2013)
Vern R. Walker, Nathaniel Carie, Courtney C. DeWitt, Eric Lesh
A framework for the extraction and modeling of fact-finding reasoning from legal decisions: lessons from the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus. Artif. Intell. Law 19 (4) (2011)
Vern R. Walker
Plausibility schemas: templates for legal factfinding. ICAIL (2009)
Vern R. Walker
A Default-Logic Framework for Legal Reasoning in Multiagent Systems. AAAI Fall Symposium: Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents (2006)
Vern R. Walker
Complexity, transparency, and the warranted use of formal systems in legal factfinding. Artif. Intell. Law 9 (2-3) (2001)