Anchored narratives in reasoning about evidence

Floris Bex, Henry Prakken & Bart Verheij

This paper concerns the reasoning with stories, evidence and generalisations in a legal context. We will make some notions from the existing Anchored Narratives theory more clear by making use of two formal techniques from AI, namely causal-abductive reasoning and default-style argumentation. We will propose a combination of these two formalisms which solves some of the problems of the causal-abductive approach.

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Reference:
Bex, F.J., Prakken, H., & Verheij, B. (2006). Anchored narratives in reasoning about evidence. Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. JURIX 2006: The Nineteenth Annual Conference (ed. T. Van Engers), pp. 11-20. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

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