This article continues the research initiated in [1,2], which established a connection between Boolean classifiers and legal case-based reasoning. We relax the assumption that case bases are such that all situations have been decided in favour of the defendant or the plaintiff and we introduce an inductive strategy for assigning plausible outcomes to undecided cases. Using counterfactual reasoning, we propose a method to determine whether, at each step of the induction, a feature is a factor, i.e., it consistently favours a single outcome, or is irrelevant, i.e., it is does not favour any outcome, or is ambiguous, i.e., it favours opposite outcomes.

Di Florio, C., Liu, X., Lorini, E., Rotolo, A., Sartor, G. (2023). Inferring New Classifications in Legal Case-Based Reasoning. Amsterdam : IOS Press [10.3233/faia230942].

Inferring New Classifications in Legal Case-Based Reasoning

Di Florio, Cecilia
;
Rotolo, Antonino
;
Sartor, Giovanni
2023

Abstract

This article continues the research initiated in [1,2], which established a connection between Boolean classifiers and legal case-based reasoning. We relax the assumption that case bases are such that all situations have been decided in favour of the defendant or the plaintiff and we introduce an inductive strategy for assigning plausible outcomes to undecided cases. Using counterfactual reasoning, we propose a method to determine whether, at each step of the induction, a feature is a factor, i.e., it consistently favours a single outcome, or is irrelevant, i.e., it is does not favour any outcome, or is ambiguous, i.e., it favours opposite outcomes.
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Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023)
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Di Florio, C., Liu, X., Lorini, E., Rotolo, A., Sartor, G. (2023). Inferring New Classifications in Legal Case-Based Reasoning. Amsterdam : IOS Press [10.3233/faia230942].
Di Florio, Cecilia; Liu, Xinghan; Lorini, Emiliano; Rotolo, Antonino; Sartor, Giovanni
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