Kevin Ashley was featured in April 20 Pittwire Article ""Pitt Law Professor Kevin Ashley receives CodeX Prize."
2022-04-25
Professor, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems
Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Senior Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
PhD, University of Massachusetts
My research interests in Learning, Law and Computer Science are to:
Xu, H., Savelka, J., & Ashley, K.D. (2021). Toward Summarizing Case Decisions via Extracting Argument Issues, Reasons, and Conclusions. ICAIL '21: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Šavelka, J. & Ashley, K. (2021). Legal information retrieval for understanding statutory terms. Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Ashley, K., Litman, D., He, D., Hwa, R., & Anderson, J. (2021). Center for text analytic methods in legal studies. In: Pitt Momentum Fund 2021.
Savelka, J., & Ashley, K. (2021). Discovering explanatory sentences in legal case decisions using pre-trained language models. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Xu, H., Šavelka, J., & Ashley, K.D. (2020). Using argument mining for legal text summarization. Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, 334, 184-193.
Kevin Ashley was featured in April 20 Pittwire Article ""Pitt Law Professor Kevin Ashley receives CodeX Prize."
2022-04-25
Pitt Momentum Scaling Grant: Center for Text Analytic Methods in Legal Studies: Kevin Ashley, School of Law with School of Computing & Information Science colleagues Daqing He, Diane Litman, and Rebecca Hwa; and James Anderson, RAND. Scaling Grants are awarded for a two-year term with an award cap of $ 400,000, enable multi-disciplinary teams to competitively scale their research efforts in targeted pursuit of large-scale external funding.
March 21, 2022
Congratulations to Kevin Ashley, Professor, Law, and Diane Litman, Professor, School of Computing and Information, who received a $600,000 grant from Amazon and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Fairness in Artificial Intelligence for "Using AI to Increases Fairness by Improving Access to Justice."
January 28, 2022
Kevin Ashley and Diane Litman have received a grant from the joint Amazon and National Science Foundation Fairness in Artificial Intelligence program to support their project, "Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice."
November 16, 2021
Kudos to LRDC Momentum Grant recipients: Josefina Bañales: Anti-Racism Action Development Among Latinx Youth; Jamie Hanson: Understanding the Role of the Brain in Race/Ethnicity Based Stressors and Behavioral Challenges Among Youth of Color; Kevin Ashley and Diane Litman: Center for Text Analytic Methods in Legal Studies; Omid Fotuhi: Improving Educational Opportunities for Black Youth in Pittsburgh: A Justice-Centered Intervention.
June 2021
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