Identifying Relationships Among Sentences in Court Case Transcripts Using Discourse Relations

Case Law has a significant impact on the proceedings of legal cases. Therefore, the information that can be obtained from previous court cases is valuable to lawyers and other legal officials when performing their duties. This paper describes a methodology of applying discourse relations between sentences when processing text documents related to the legal domain. In this study, we developed a mechanism to classify the relationships that can be observed among sentences in transcripts of United States court cases. First, we defined relationship types that can be observed between sentences in court case transcripts. Then we classified pairs of sentences according to the relationship type by combining a machine learning model and a rule-based approach. The results obtained through our system were evaluated using human judges. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where discourse relationships between sentences have been used to determine relationships among sentences in legal court case transcripts.Comment: Conference: 2018 International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer

Effectiveness of Cutting-Edge Technology for Motel Management System

The online motel management system was designed regarding the client Delicacy Inn, Galle, Sri Lanka. In the present, the client is using a manual system to manage their large amount of data which is having several issues. The proposed system allows users to store and manipulate all the data in the database while making the data handling process in to a very effective manner. The proposed system is developed to cover the process of the motel such as employee management, customer & room management, food & beverages management and transportation management. Human Resource manager is responsible of adding, updating, and deleting employee details. Human Resource manager is able to mark the leave consideration and the salary details of the employees. Human Resource manager can search relevant employee details. Customer Resource manager is responsible of adding, updating, and deleting customer details the customers can register and log in to the system. Customers can order foods, order vehicle for transportation and view bills through their online login. Transportation manager is able to manage the vehicle details and managing the process of that. Food and beverages manager are responsible of managing food items and orders given by the customers. A web application was mainly developed to ensure that the internal procedures in the motel management system are processing well. The system is developed with the intention of reducing data manipulation errors in the current manual process, resulting in considerable development in human resource utilization. The system is designed in a user-friendly manner, with a reliability, in an efficient way and its statistics all the client requirements

An Efficient Fuel Management System to Address the Ongoing Fuel Crisis in Sri Lanka

The economic crisis has made huge impacts on people’s lives to the extent that certain daily tasks no longer feel normal, like pumping fuel from a fuel station. Mental and health conditions of people are deteriorating due to these types of issues which must immediately be addressed. This paper discusses about a proposed fuel management system to eliminate or at least reduce this unnecessary hassle for the public and fuel stations also illustrating and discussing the available systems for the same. New innovative features have been proposed to this system respective to the system already in use which is believed that it will vastly help in managing fuel more efficiently for both distribution and pumping. We also believe that the data collected through the system will also be very useful in making prediction models for the government as well, to make certain decisions. Another aim of this system is eliminating the black market for fuel which has been created putting more pressure on people and the government by a complaint management feature and tracking fraudulent fuel stations using a formula which has been proposed. Thus, we hope this system will aid both for the government and the public for an efficient fuel management