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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.315

Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network

Authors: Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij, and Bart Verheij

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 32, 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative

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In legal cases, stories or scenarios can serve as the context for a crime when reasoning with evidence. In order to develop a scientifically founded technique for evidential reasoning, a method is required for the representation and evaluation of various scenarios in a case. In this paper the probabilistic technique of Bayesian networks is proposed as a method for modeling narrative, and it is shown how this can be used to capture a number of narrative properties. Bayesian networks quantify how the variables in a case interact. Recent research on Bayesian networks applied to legal cases includes the development of a list of legal idioms: recurring substructures in legal Bayesian networks. Scenarios are coherent presentations of a collection of states and events, and qualitative in nature. A method combining the quantitative, probabilistic approach with the narrative approach would strengthen the tools to represent and evaluate scenarios. In a previous paper, the development of a design method for modeling multiple scenarios in a Bayesian network was initiated. The design method includes two narrative idioms: the scenario idiom and the merged scenarios idiom. In this current paper, the method of Vlek, et al. (2013) is extended with a subscenario idiom and it is shown how the method can be used to represent characteristic features of narrative.

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Charlotte S. Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij, and Bart Verheij. Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network. In 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 32, pp. 315-332, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{vlek_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2013.315,
  author =	{Vlek, Charlotte S. and Prakken, Henry and Renooij, Silja and Verheij, Bart},
  title =	{{Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network}},
  booktitle =	{2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative},
  pages =	{315--332},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-57-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Finlayson, Mark A. and Fisseni, Bernhard and L\"{o}we, Benedikt and Meister, Jan Christoph},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.315},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-41373},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.315},
  annote =	{Keywords: Narrative, Scenarios, Bayesian networks, Legal evidence}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.08042.1

Research Challenges for Argumentation

Authors: Jürgen Dix, Simon Parsons, Henry Prakken, and Guillermo Simari

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8042, Perspectives Workshop: Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems (2008)

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The first articles on argumentation in computer science appeared circa 20 years ago. Since then we have seen great advances, establishing a solid theoretical basis, a broad canvas of applications, and, most recently, some realistic implementations. The field has gone from infancy to maturity, and the initial questions that researchers posed – "how do we do this?", "what is it good for?" and "how do we implement it – are mostly answered.

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Jürgen Dix, Simon Parsons, Henry Prakken, and Guillermo Simari. Research Challenges for Argumentation. In Perspectives Workshop: Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8042, pp. 1-13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{dix_et_al:DagSemProc.08042.1,
  author =	{Dix, J\"{u}rgen and Parsons, Simon and Prakken, Henry and Simari, Guillermo},
  title =	{{Research Challenges for Argumentation}},
  booktitle =	{Perspectives Workshop: Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems},
  pages =	{1--13},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8042},
  editor =	{J\"{u}rgen Dix and Simon Parsons and Henry Prakken and Guillermo Simari},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08042.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-15770},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08042.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Argumentation, reasoning, agent systems}
}

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