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The Task Model of Court Investigation in a Multi-agent System of Argumentation in Court

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To develop a court argumentation system of three agents: a plaintiff, a defendant, and a judge, this paper constructs task models of courtroom investigation. More specifically, we develop the algorithms of evidence questioning and evaluation, and establish a mechanism for fact finding, which consists of evidence-claim networks and evidence aggregation. Finally, we illustrate our system with a real legal scenario.

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Zhong, Q., Luo, X., van Eemeren, F.H., Huang, F. (2013). The Task Model of Court Investigation in a Multi-agent System of Argumentation in Court. In: Grossi, D., Roy, O., Huang, H. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8196. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40948-6_23

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