Professor
Edwina L. Rissland received her Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics with Honors magna
cum laude from Brown University,
M.A. in Mathematics from Brandeis University, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from
MIT. She currently holds the rank of Professor. She is recognized as a founder
and world leader in the areas of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and AI & Law,
and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) in 1991.
For
the 1982-83 academic year, she was a Fellow of Law and Computer Science at the
Harvard Law School. From 1985 through 1996, she held an appointment as Lecturer
on Law at the Harvard Law School, where she taught a seminar on Artificial
Intelligence and Legal Reasoning.
Her
current research interests include case-based reasoning (CBR), AI and legal
reasoning, CBR and information retrieval, mixed paradigm reasoning, and
cyberlaw.
Since
September 2003, Professor Rissland has been serving as NSF Program Director for
the Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) Program in the
Division of Information and Intelligence Systems (IIS) within the CISE
Directorate of the National Science Foundation. Currently she is serving as
leader for the Robust Intelligence cluster.
Professor
Rissland has served as President of the International Association for
Artificial Intelligence and Law, and on the Board of Councilors of the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), as well as on numerous program
committees, including the national conferences of the AAAI, the international
conferences on case-based reasoning (ICCBR), and the biennial international
conferences on AI & Law (ICAIL). She has served as guest editor/co-editor
for several special journal issues, including the special issue of the journal Artificial
Intelligence and Law (Fall 2002) in
memory of the contributions of Don Berman and the recent double issue of Artificial
Intelligence on AI and Law (Vol 150,
Nos 1-2, Nov. 2003). She has authored over 100 articles, books, and technical
reports. She is a co-author of the text Cognitive Science: An Integrated Approach published by MIT Press/Bradford Books. She was
Co-Editor of the MIT Press series on AI and Law, and is a founding member of
the editorial board of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law.
A Sampling of Publications
Articles on AI and Law:
• Rissland, E.L., Ashley, K.D., & Loui. R.P. “AI
and Law: A Fruitful Synergy.” Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 150, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1-15, November 2003.
•
Ashley, K.D., & Rissland, E.L. “Law, Learning and Representation.” Artificial
Intelligence. Vol. 150, Nos. 1-2,
pp. 17-58, November 2003.
• Rissland, E.L., & Ashley, K.D. “A Note on
Dimensions and Factors.” Artificial Intelligence and Law. Vol. 10, Nos. 1-3, pp.65-77, September 2002.
• Skalak, D.B. & Rissland, E.L. “Arguments and
Cases: An Inevitable Intertwining.” Artificial Intelligence and Law. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-44, Fall 1992.
• Rissland, E.L. “Artificial Intelligence and Law:
Stepping Stones to a Model of Legal Reasoning.” Yale Law Journal. Vol. 99, No. 8, pp. 1957-1982, June 1990.
Articles on CBR and information retrieval:
• Rissland, E.L. & Daniels, J.J. “The Synergistic
Application of CBR to IR”. Artificial Intelligence Review: Special Issue on the use of AI in Information
Retrieval, Vol. 10, 1996, pp. 441-475.
• Daniels, J.J., & Rissland, E.L. “What You Saw
Is What You Want: Using Cases to Seed Information Retrieval.” Case-Based
Reasoning Research and Development (Springer
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1266) the Proceedings Second
International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR-97, Providence, R.I., July 1997, pp. 325-337.
• Daniels, J.J., & Rissland, E.L. “Finding
Legally Relevant Passages in Case Opinions.” Proceedings Sixth International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-97), Melbourne, July 1997, pp. 39-47.
Articles on legal argument and mixed paradigm systems:
• Rissland, E.L., Skalak, D.B., & Friedman, M.T.
“BankXX: Supporting Legal Arguments through Heuristic Retrieval.” Artificial
Intelligence and Law. Vol. 4, No. 1,
pp 1-71, 1996.
• Rissland, E.L., & Skalak, D.B. “CABARET:
Statutory Interpretation in a Hybrid Architecture.” International Journal of
Man-Machine Studies (IJMMS). Vol.
34, No. 6, pp. 839-887, June 1991.
• Rissland, E.L. “Dimension-based Analysis of
Hypotheticals from Supreme Court Oral Argument.” Proceedings Second
International Conference on AI and Law,
(ICAIL-89), Vancouver, BC, pp. 111-120, June 1989.
• Rissland, E.L. & Friedman, M.T. “Detecting Change
in Legal Concepts.” Proceedings Fifth International Conference on AI and
Law, (ICAIL-95), Washington, D.C.,
pp. 127-136, May 1995.
Articles on mathematical reasoning and example-based reasoning:
• Rissland, E.L., Valcarce, E.M., & Ashley, K.D.
“Explaining and Arguing with Examples.” Proceedings Fourth National on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84), Austin,
TX, pp. 288-294, August 1984.
• Rissland, E.L. “The Ubiquitous Dialectic.” Proceedings
Sixth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-84), Pisa, Italy, pp. 367-372. (Published by
North-Holland, O'Shea, Ed.), September 1984.
• Rissland, E.L. “Example Generation.” Proceedings
Third National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of
Intelligence, Victoria, B.C., pp.
280-288, May 1980.
• Rissland, E.L., & Soloway, E.M. “Overview of an
Example Generation System.” Proceedings First National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-80),
Stanford, pp. 256-258, August 1980.
• Rissland, E. “Understanding Understanding
Mathematics.” Cognitive Science,
Vol. 2, No. 4: 361-383, 1978.