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Argument schemes for reasoning with legal cases using values

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Trevor Bench-Capon,

Katie AtkinsonAuthors Info & Claims

ICAIL '13: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Pages 13 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/2514601.2514604

Published: 10 June 2013 Publication History

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Argument schemes can provide a means of explicitly describing reasoning methods in a form that lends itself to computation. The reasoning required to distinguish cases in the manner of CATO has been previously captured as a set of argument schemes. Here we present argument schemes that encapsulate another way of reasoning with cases: using preferences between social values revealed in past decisions to decide cases which have no exact matching precedents when the cases are described in terms of factors. We provide a set of schemes, with variations to capture different ways of comparing sets and varying degrees of promotion of values; we formalise these schemes; and we illustrate them with some examples.

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ICAIL '13: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

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DOI:10.1145/2514601

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