Dealing with Qualitative and Quantitative Features in Legal Domains
This work addresses reasoning challenges in legal domains, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing argumentation formalisms.
The paper tackled the problem of reasoning in legal domains by enriching an argumentation formalism with metadata labels for quantitative and qualitative features, which are propagated through an argumentative graph based on support, conflict, and aggregation relations.
In this work, we enrich a formalism for argumentation by including a formal characterization of features related to the knowledge, in order to capture proper reasoning in legal domains. We add meta-data information to the arguments in the form of labels representing quantitative and qualitative data about them. These labels are propagated through an argumentative graph according to the relations of support, conflict, and aggregation between arguments.