Plausibility schemas: templates for legal factfinding

This paper describes a default-logic framework (plausibility schemas) and software tools (Decision ApprenticeTM and Legal ApprenticeTM ) for modeling, guiding and automating the reasoning from evidence in a legal record to a finding of fact. Keywords Default logic, non-monotonic logic, evidence assessment

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICAIL
• Authors: Vern R. Walker
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Default Logic, ICAIL 2009, Non-monotonic Logic, Plausibility Schemas