Formalising argumentative story-based analysis of evidence

In the present paper, we provide a formalised version of a merged argumentative and story-based approach towards the analysis of evidence. As an application, we are able to show how our approach sheds new light on inference to the best explanation with case evidence. More specifically, it will be clarified how the events in a case story that are considered to be proven abductively explain the otherwise unproven events of the case story. We compare our approach with existing AI work on modelling legal reasoning with evidence. Keywords Argumentation, Abductive reasoning, Inference to the best explanation, Legal evidence, Stories

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICAIL
• Authors: F. J. Bex, Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Case Evidence, Case Story, ICAIL 2007, Story-based Approach