Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law

by Douglas N. Walton

Book Overview

Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. The book provides a survey of the leading problems, and outlines how future research using argumentation-based methods show great promise of leading to useful solutions. The problems studied include not only these of argument evaluation and argument invention, but also analysis of specific kinds of evidence commonly used in law, like witness testimony, circumstantial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540251871
• ISBN13: 9783540251873
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"