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Legal Knowledge Conveyed by Narratives: Towards a Representational Model Sileno, Giovanni Boer, Alexander van Engers, Tom story representation story acquisition legal narratives knowledge representation agent-roles causation expectations agent-based modeling petri The paper investigates a representational model for narratives, aiming to facilitate the acquisition of the systematic core of stories concerning legal cases, i.e. the set of causal and temporal relationships that govern the world in which the narrated scenario takes place. At the discourse level, we consider narratives as sequences of "messages" collected in an "observation", including descriptions of agents, of agents' behaviour and of "mechanisms" relative to physical, mental and institutional domains. At the content level, stories correspond to synchronizations of embodied "agent-roles" scripts. Following this approach, the "Pierson v Post" case is analyzed in detail and represented as a Petri net. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Giovanni Sileno and Alexander Boer and Tom van Engers 2014 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 41, 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.182 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-46567 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.182 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode