englischThis paper describes a method developed for the automated analysis of legal documents. The technical procedure is based on proven methods from computational linguistics and machine learning.

The motivation underlying this work is the improvement of support systems for legal text production [...]

englischSince the ability of software agents to act autonomously is also the cause of autonomous malfunctioning, a legal framework has to regulate compensation for damages caused by autonomous malfunctioning. Appropriate regulation already exists in both contractual and pre-contractual settings; [...]

englischWhen dealing with experiential sentences in court, there is a risk of committing the probabilistic inverse fallacy, the swapping of conditional probabilities. Such a fallacy can be serious in legal decision making. Using empirical methods, the dissertation shows that this fallacy can be [...]