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Professors from the School of Law and from the Department of Computer Science were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) award, . Part of the NSF Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (FAI), their project works to improve public access to justice. Ashley and Litman are also professors in the Intelligent Systems Program and senior scientists at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC).
Ashley and Litman鈥檚 project applies artificial intelligence聽to increase social fairness by developing two tools to make legal sources more understandable: Statutory Term Interpretation Support (STATIS) and Case Argument Summarization (CASUM). STATIS is an AI-based legal information retrieval tool that will help users understand and interpret statutory terms.聽CASUM summarizes case decisions in terms of legal argument triples: the major issues a court addressed in the case, the court鈥檚 conclusion with respect to each issue聽and the court鈥檚 reasons for reaching the conclusion.