Modular argumentation for modelling legal doctrines in common law of contract |
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Authors: | Phan Minh Dung Phan Minh Thang |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science and Information Management Program, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Abstract: | To create a programming environment for contract dispute resolution, we propose an extension of assumption-based argumentation
into modular assumption-based argumentation in which different modules of argumentation representing different knowledge bases
for reasoning about beliefs and facts and for representation and reasoning with the legal doctrines could be built and assembled
together. A distinct novel feature of modular argumentation in compare with other modular logic-based systems like Prolog
is that it allows references to different semantics in the same module at the same time, a feature critically important for
application of argumentation in legal domains like contract dispute resolution where the outcomes of court cases often depend
on whether credulous or skeptical modes of reasoning were applied by the contract parties. We apply the new framework to model
the doctrines of contract breach and mutual mistake. |
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