Precedent Comparison in the Precedent Model Formalism: Theory and Application to Legal CasesHeng Zheng, Davide Grossi, Bart VerheijComparison between precedents and case facts is a core issue in case-based reasoning, which has been discussed in a lot of research. In this paper, we use a recently developed precedent model formalism to discuss precedent comparison in case-based reasoning. With this formalism and a case study in a real legal domain, we show a new generalization and a new refinement of precedent comparison with respect to case-based reasoning approaches based on factors, such as HYPO and CATO. 1) Generalization: precedents and case facts can now be compared with general propositional formulas, and not only with factors. 2) Refinement: a distinction can be made between current analogies and distinctions in precedent models, and so-called relevances, i.e., unshared formulas between two precedents that are relevant for possible additional analogies and distinctions that can arise in a discussion. With these contributions the role of factors in case-based reasoning can be refined and compound formulas based on factors can be taken into account in casebased reasoning.Manuscript (in PDF-format) A shortened version of this paper has been presented at the JURIX 2020 conference. See here. Reference: Zheng, H., Grossi, D., & Verheij, B. (2021). Precedent Comparison in the Precedent Model Formalism: Theory and Application to Legal Cases. XAILA 2020. EXplainable and Responsible AI in Law 2020. Proceedings of the 3rd EXplainable AI in Law Workshop (XAILA 2020) co-located with 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2020). Prague, Czech Republic, December 9th, 2020. (eds. Nalepa, G.J., Araszkiewicz, M., Atzmueller, M., Verheij, B., & Bobek, S.). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2891/XAILA-2020_paper_3.pdf Bart Verheij's home page - research - publications |