Study on the structure of argumentation in case law

This paper investigates natural language argumentation in the case law domain. The starting point is a study on the discourse and argumentative characteristics of ten legal documents from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Then, a generalization of this study allows to formalize the structure of argumentation in the ECHR documents as a context-free grammar. The paper concludes with the evaluation of the grammar and a discussion of its main limitations.

ISBN:978-1-58603-952-3

Publication year:2008

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Authors from:Higher Education

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