A typology of moves involved in case comparison

  • Authors:

  • Bram Roth

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Metajuridica, Universiteit Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper is about the process of case comparison as it takes place in case-based reasoning, and its purpose is to do a systematic investigation into the types of move involved in this process. Starting with a simple model of the roles that case facts can play in the establishment of a decision, a general framework is sketched within which these move types can be accommodated. The move types that this simple model allows for are discussed and it is shown how each of them relates to one or more of the possible outcomes of the comparison process. Then the model is extended by introducing a number of more complex roles for case facts. This extension turns out to allow for new move types involved in case comparison, and a corresponding typology of new moves is formulated. Finally, after a discussion of two other existing approaches it turns out that these do not fully account for the process of case comparison as described in this paper.