Describing legal policies as story tropes in normative systems

Matthew Thompson, Julian Padget, Ken Satoh

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Abstract

TropICAL is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for the description of abstract legal policies. Taking inspiration from narrative tropes, our DSL enables the creation of component "policies" that may be reused between case descriptions. These components are compiled to social institutions, which are realised in Answer Set Programming (ASP) code. In this way, the actions of defendant and plaintiff take the shape of a story which must conform to the rules in the ASP description. We propose the use of our DSL in a tool designed for lawyers to generate arguments for the argumentation process.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLegal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2016
Subtitle of host publicationThe 29th Annual Conference
EditorsFloris Bex, Serena Villata
PublisherIOS Press
Pages207-210
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781614997252
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
Event29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2016 - Nice, France
Duration: 14 Dec 201616 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume294
ISSN (Print)0922-6389

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2016
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period14/12/1616/12/16

Keywords

  • Answer set programming
  • Legal policies
  • Social institutions
  • Story tropes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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