Argumentation and Defeasible Reasoning in the Law


Marco Billi, Roberta Calegari, Giuseppe Contissa, Francesca Lagioia, Giuseppe Pisano, Galileo Sartor, Giovanni Sartor

Special Issue The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Law
J — Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal 4(4), pages 897-914
December 2021

Different formalisms for defeasible reasoning have been used to represent knowledge and reason in the legal field. In this work, we provide an overview of the following logic-based approaches to defeasible reasoning: defeasible logic, Answer Set Programming, ABA+, ASPIC+, and DeLP. We compare features of these approaches under three perspectives: the logical model (knowledge representation), the method (computational mechanisms), and the technology (available software resources). On top of that, two real examples in the legal domain are designed and implemented in ASPIC+ to showcase the benefit of an argumentation approach in real-world domains. The CrossJustice and Interlex projects are taken as a testbed, and experiments are conducted with the Arg2P technology.

(keywords) argumentation; defeasible reasoning; tools and technologies; Arg2P

Journals & Series

Publication

— subtitle

Special Issue The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Law

— authors

Marco Billi, Roberta Calegari, Giuseppe Contissa, Francesca Lagioia, Giuseppe Pisano, Galileo Sartor, Giovanni Sartor

— editors

Larisa Ivascu

— status

published

— sort

article in journal

— publication date

December 2021

— journal

J — Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal

— volume

4

— issue

4

— pages

897-914

URLs

original page

identifiers

— DOI

10.3390/j4040061

— IRIS

11585/844314

— print ISSN

2571-8800

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