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Vern R. Walker

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

16

Venues

3

Active years

2009–2025

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

16 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025ICAILAutomated Mapping of Legal Criteria to the Texts of Adjudicatory Decisions Using LLMs.Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Jaromr Savelka
2023ICAILToward Implementation Science: A Case Study Using LA-MPS to Research Argument Elements at Scale.Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong
2022JURIXToward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts.Hannes Westermann, Jaromr Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2021JURIXData-Centric Machine Learning: Improving Model Performance and Understanding Through Dataset Analysis.Hannes Westermann, Jaromr Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2020JURIXAutomating the Classification of Finding Sentences for Linguistic Polarity.Vern R. Walker, Stephen R. Strong, Vern E. Walker
2020JURIXSentence Embeddings and High-Speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents.Hannes Westermann, Jaromr Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2019ICAILAutomatic Classification of Rhetorical Roles for Sentences: Comparing Rule-Based Scripts with Machine Learning.Vern R. Walker, Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt, Alexandra M. Davidson, Marysa Linares, Domenick J. Pesce
2019ICAILUsing Factors to Predict and Analyze Landlord-Tenant Decisions to Increase Access to Justice.Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2019JURIXComputer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain.Hannes Westermann, Jaromr Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef
2017ICAILSemantic types for computational legal reasoning: propositional connectives and sentence roles in the veterans' claims dataset.Vern R. Walker, Ji Hae Han, Xiang Ni, Kaneyasu Yoseda
2017ICAILSemantic Types for Decomposing Evidence Assessment in Decisions on Veterans' Disability Claims for PTSD.Vern R. Walker, Ashtyn Hemendinger, Nneka Okpara, Tauseef Ahmed
2015ICAILIntroducing LUIMA: an experiment in legal conceptual retrieval of vaccine injury decisions using a UIMA type system and tools.Matthias Grabmair, Kevin D. Ashley, Ran Chen, Preethi Sureshkumar, Chen Wang, Eric Nyberg, Vern R. Walker
2014ACLAnnotating Patterns of Reasoning about Medical Theories of Causation in Vaccine Cases: Toward a Type System for Arguments.Vern R. Walker, Karina Vazirova, Cass Sanford
2013ICAILToward constructing evidence-based legal arguments using legal decision documents and machine learning.Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
2013JURIXFrom Information Retrieval (IR) to Argument Retrieval (AR) for Legal Cases: Report on a Baseline Study.Kevin D. Ashley, Vern R. Walker
2009ICAILPlausibility schemas: templates for legal factfinding.Vern R. Walker