Extracting Scenarios from a Bayesian Network as Explanations for Legal Evidence

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-112

  Vlek, Charlotte S ^a   Prakken, Henry ^a,b   Renooij, Silja ^b   Verheij, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Legal reasoning; narrative

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

BAYESIA N NETWORKS; GLOBAL COHERENCE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INFORMED DECISION; LEGAL REASONING; MOST PROBABLE CONFIGURATIONS; NARRATIVE; PROBABILISTICS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84948668579     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-468-8-103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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