Intelligent tools for managing factual arguments

ABSTRACT

By exploring some practical questions in the context of a supremely impractical debate, this article seeks to highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to promote better use of intelligent tools in the legal workplace. It lays out design features for an imagined online argument manager, describes knowledge engineering challenges such a system presents, and links these to recent research and scholarship. In addition to reviewing theoretical characteristics of factual argumentation, this article considers what kinds of tools are or could be available for everyday use by nonspecialists.

REFERENCES

• 1: Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Try to see it my way: modelling persuasion in legal discourse, Artificial Intelligence and Law, v.11 n.4, p.271-287, January 2003 [doi>10.1023/B:ARTI.0000045997.45038.8f]
• 2: Floris Bex , Henry Prakken , Chris Reed , Douglas Walton, Towards a formal account of reasoning about evidence: argumentation schemes and generalisations, Artificial Intelligence and Law, v.11 n.2-3, p.125-165, January 2003 [doi>10.1023/B:ARTI.0000046007.11806.9a]
• 3: Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998
• 4: Frank, Thomas. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004
• 5: Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004
• 6: Greenblatt, S., Cohen, W., Howard, J., and Maus, K. The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997
• 7: Philip Greenspun , Marc Lauritsen, Making way for intelligence in case space, Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, p.96-103, May 21-24, 1995, College Park, Maryland, United States [doi>10.1145/222092.222150]
• 8: Jeroen Keppens , John Zeleznikow, A model based reasoning approach for generating plausible crime scenarios from evidence, Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, June 24-28, 2003, Scotland, United Kingdom [doi>10.1145/1047788.1047796]
• 9: Ronald P. Loui , Jeff Norman , Joe Altepeter , Dan Pinkard , Dan Craven , Jessica Linsday , Mark Foltz, Progress on Room 5: a testbed for public interactive semi-formal legal argumentation, Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, p.207-214, June 30-July 03, 1997, Melbourne, Australia [doi>10.1145/261618.261655]
• 10: Mitchell, John. Who Wrote Shakespeare? London: Thames and Hudson, 1996
• 11: Nelson, Alan. Monstrous Adversary. The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Liverpool University Press, 2003
• 12: Ogburn, Charlton. The Mysterious William Shakespeare. The Myth and the Reality. McLean, Va: EPM Publications, 1992
• 13: Oskamp, A., and Lauritsen, M. AI in law practice? So far, not much. 10 Artificial Intelligence and Law 227--236 (2003)
• 14: Park, Jack, ed. XML Topic Maps. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003
• 15: Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy. London: Routledge Classics, 3rd ed., 1968
• 16: Sobran, Joseph. Alias Shakespeare. New York: Free Press, 1997