Ken Satoh, Kento Asai, Takamune Kogawa, Masahiro Kubota, Megumi Nakamura, Yoshiaki Nishigai, Kei Shirakawa, Chiaki Takano
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6797 153-164 2011年 査読有り
In this paper, we propose a legal reasoning system called PROLEG (PROlog based LEGal reasoning support system) based on the Japanese "theory of presupposed ultimate facts" (called "Yoken-jijitsu-ron" in Japanese, the JUF theory, in short). The theory is used for decision making by judges under incomplete information. Previously, we proposed a translation of the theory into logic programming. However, it turns out that the knowledge representation in logic programming is difficult for lawyers to understand. So, in this paper, we change knowledge representation of rules in the JUF theory in PROLEG so that we reflect lawyers' reasoning using the idea of "openness" proposed by a judge who is a main investigator of the JUF theory. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.