Corpus ID: 60380860

Modelling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals, a Thesis Proposal.

@inproceedings{Ashley1986ModellingLA,
  title={Modelling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals, a Thesis Proposal.},
  author={Kevin D. Ashley},
  year={1986}
}

• Kevin D. Ashley
• Published 1986
• Computer Science

Abstract : This thesis proposal outlines a program, HYPO, to model reasoning with cases and hypotheticals. The program comprises a means of representing and indexing cases in a Case Knowledge Base (CKB), a computational definition of relevance in terms of dimensions which capture the utility of a case for making a particular kind of argument, a dimension-based method for other cases, for making and responding to points in an argument, for asking pertinent questions and for generating… Expand