Email George Cross - georgecross@acm.org

Information Retrieval

Journal Publications

Shufen Kuo and George R. Cross, "A Two-Step String Matching Procedure," Pattern Recognition, 24(7), 711-716, 1991.

Craig Brossman. and Cross, G. R. "Model-Based Recognition of Characters in Trademark Artwork" Pattern Recognition Letters, 11, 363-370, May 1990.

Shufen Kuo and Cross, G. R. "An Improved Algorithm to Find the Length of the Longest Common Subsequence of Two Strings," ACM SIGIR Forum, Spring/Summer 1989, Volume 23, Numbers 3-4, 89-99 (Available as WSU Technical Report CS-87-178).

deBessonet, C. G. and Cross, G. R., "An Artificial Intelligence Application in Law: CCLIPS, A Computer Program that Processes Legal Information," Berkeley High-Technology Law Journal, 1(2), 329-409, Fall 1986.

Cross, G. R., "Legal Knowledge," Proceedings of the IEEE, 74(10), 1445-1450, October 1986.

Cross, G. R. and deBessonet, C. G., "Representation of Legal Knowledge for Conceptual Retrieval," Information Processing and Management, 21(1), 35-44, 1985.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Cross, G. R. and Huang, W.-B., "Computational and Conceptual Aspects of Trademark Infringement," Proceedings of the III International Congress: Logic, Informatics, and Law, Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica, Florence, Italy, November, 1989, Volume 1, 137-156. (Available as WSU Technical Report CS-89-201).

Huang, W.-B. and Cross, G. R., "Reasoning About Trademark Infringement Cases," Proceeding: Case-Based Reasoning Workshop, DARPA/ISTO, Pensacola, FL, May, 1989, 270-274, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Mateo, CA.

M. K. Di Benigno, Cross, G. R., and deBessonet, C. G., "COREL-A Conceptual Retrieval System," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, 144-148, September 1986.

deBessonet, C. G. and Cross, G. R., "Processing and Representing Statutory Formalisms," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers, Systems and Signal Processing, Bangalore, India, 1170-1172, December, 1984.

Invited Publications

deBessonet, C. G. and Cross, G. R., "Reperimento concettuale e decisione giuridica," in Analisi Automatica dei Testi Giuridici: Contributi al II Convegno internazionale di Logica, Informatica e Diritto, Firenze, Settembre 1985 ed. A. A. Martino and F. Socci Natali, Giuffrè Editore, Milan, 1988, pp 295-305.

Cross, G. R. and Sirjani, A., "A System That Reasons About Trademark Infringement," invited paper, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Theme Law and Computers, Session V, 11(1-12), Rome, May 1988.

deBessonet, C. G., and Cross, G. R., "Distinguishing Legal Language-Types for Conceptual Retrieval," in Computer Power and Legal Language, ed. Charles Walter, Quorum Books, New York, pp 155-166, 1988.

Cross, G. R., deBessonet, C. G., Broemmelsiek, T., Durham, G., Gupta, R., and Nasiruddin, M., "The Implementation of CCLIPS," in Computer Power and Legal Language, ed. Charles Walter, Quorum Books, New York, 89-98, 1988.

deBessonet, C. G. and Cross, G. R., "Conceptual Retrieval and Legal Decisionmaking," in Automated Analysis of Legal Texts: Logic, Informatics, Law, ed. A. A. Martino and F. Socci Natali, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 219-227, 1986.

Conference Proceedings

deBessonet, C. G., Cross, G. R., Hintze, J., Rajinikanth, M., "Formalization of Legal Information," in Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. Robert F. Allen, Paradigm Press, Osprey, Florida, 425-434, 1985.

Invited Presentations

"Intelligent Legal Information Systems: Problems and Prospects," panelist, International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, June 1983.

Talks Presented

Kraft, D., and Cross, G. R., "Stopping Rules, Relevance Distributions, and Retrieval Performance," ORSA-TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, Texas, October, 1981.