1. The practical problem: Welfare recipients should be able to apply for all possible forms of government aid by entering their personal information only once. They should get an "approximately correct" eligibility determination based on their input immediately.
2. The research problem: Eligibility rules are often available on the Web in plain English. We have used some of these rules to build our frontend system. However, what if these rules change? We would like to automatically monitor those English language pages and automatically update the rules of the system correctly, without doing Natural Language processing.

Welfare Rule Extraction System Frontend

Ed Portscher's MS Report on Rule Update

Hongfang Shen's MS Report on the Welfare System Frontend

Amar Goradia and Joel D'mello's report

Malathi Yellapragada's MS report

Sai Mrudula Surapaneni's MS report

Publication:

Soon Ae Chun, Ed Portscher and James Geller, Monitoring and Updating Regulations and Policies, Proceedings of Electronic Government, 4th International Conference, EGOV 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005. Published in: Maria A. Wimmer, Roland Traumuller, Ake Gronlund and Kim V. Anderson (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3591, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 81--92.
 

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