Knowledge Representation for Reasoning with Legal Cases

14^th June 2021, 16:00
Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon

Abstract

Reasoning with legal cases has been a central concern of Artificial and Law since its beginnings. Over the years a good understanding of how we use precedents to argue for an outcome in a new case has developed. This talk will describe the stages through which this understanding has developed, and the importance of exploiting domain features in guiding the formal approaches.