Explanation in AI and law: Past, present and future

K Atkinson, T Bench-Capon, D Bollegala - Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
Explanation has been a central feature of AI systems for legal reasoning since their
inception. Recently, the topic of explanation of decisions has taken on a new urgency …

[HTML][HTML] Explainable AI tools for legal reasoning about cases: A study on the European Court of Human Rights

J Collenette, K Atkinson, T Bench-Capon - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we report on a significant research project undertaken to design, implement
and evaluate explainable decision-support tools for deciding legal cases. We provide a …

Administrative due process when using automated decision-making in public administration: some notes from a Finnish perspective

M Suksi - Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2021 - Springer
Various due process provisions designed for use by civil servants in administrative decision-
making may become redundant when automated decision-making is taken into use in public …

Combining a legal knowledge model with machine learning for reasoning with legal cases

J Mumford, K Atkinson, T Bench-Capon - Proceedings of the Nineteenth …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have witnessed significant progress in the deployment of advanced Natural
Language Processing (NLP) techniques based on transformer technology, across many …

HYPO's legacy: introduction to the virtual special issue

TJM Bench-Capon - Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2017 - Springer
This paper is an introduction to a virtual special issue of AI and Law exploring the legacy of
the influential HYPO system of Rissland and Ashley. The papers included are: Arguments …

ANGELIC II: An improved methodology for representing legal domain knowledge

K Atkinson, T Bench-Capon - Proceedings of the Nineteenth …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The purpose of this paper is to provide a definitive, up-to-date account of a methodology has
that been proven successful for representing and reasoning about legal domains. The …

An explainable approach to deducing outcomes in European Court of Human Rights cases using ADFs

J Collenette, K Atkinson… - Computational Models of …, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
In this paper we present an argumentation-based approach to representing and reasoning
about a domain of law that has previously been addressed through a machine learning …

Noise induced hearing loss: Building an application using the ANGELIC methodology

L Al-Abdulkarim, K Atkinson… - Argument & …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The ANGELIC methodology was developed to encapsulate knowledge of particular legal
domains. In this paper we describe its use to build a full scale practical application intended …

Towards Supporting Legal Argumentation with NLP: Is More Data Really All You Need?

TYS Santosh, KD Ashley, K Atkinson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modeling legal reasoning and argumentation justifying decisions in cases has always been
central to AI & Law, yet contemporary developments in legal NLP have increasingly focused …

Describing the development of case law

J Henderson, T Bench-Capon - Proceedings of the seventeenth …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper considers dynamic aspects of the development of case law. The underlying
approach is to see law as a" moving classification system" based on Levi's notion of a three …