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Burden of Persuasion in Meta-argumentation

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This work defines a burden of persuasion meta-argumentation model interpreting the burden as a set of meta-arguments. Bimodal graphs are exploited to define a meta level (dealing with the burden) and an object level (dealing with standard arguments). Finally, an example in the law domain addressing the problem of burden inversion is discussed in detail.

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The work has been supported by the “CompuLaw” project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 833647).

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Pisano, G., Calegari, R., Omicini, A., Sartor, G. (2022). Burden of Persuasion in Meta-argumentation. In: Bandini, S., Gasparini, F., Mascardi, V., Palmonari, M., Vizzari, G. (eds) AIxIA 2021 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AIxIA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13196. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08421-8_8

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