Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence

Henry Prakken; Chris Reed; Douglas Walton

doi:10.1145/1047788.1047794

Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence

Henry Prakken, Chris Reed, Douglas Walton

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This paper studies the modelling of legal reasoning about evidence within general theories of defeasible reasoning and argumentation. In particular, it is studied how Wigmore's method for charting evidence and its use by modern legal evidence scholars can be exploited by modern visualisation software for argumentation, and how a formal account of the method can be given in terms of logics for defeasible argumentation. Two notions turn out to be crucial, viz. argumentation schemes and empirical generalisations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	32-41
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781581137477
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1047788.1047794
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

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Prakken, H., Reed, C., & Walton, D. (2003). Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003 (pp. 32-41). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1047788.1047794

Prakken, Henry ; Reed, Chris ; Walton, Douglas. / Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2003. pp. 32-41

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Prakken, H, Reed, C & Walton, D 2003, Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1145/1047788.1047794

Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence. / Prakken, Henry; Reed, Chris; Walton, Douglas.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2003. p. 32-41.

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Prakken H, Reed C, Walton D. Argumentation schemes and generalisations in reasoning about evidence. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law: 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL '03; Scotland; United Kingdom; 24 June 2003 through 28 June 2003. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2003. p. 32-41 doi: 10.1145/1047788.1047794

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