Witness Impeachment in Cross-Examination Using Ad Hominem Argumentation

This paper combines methods of argumentation theory and artificial intelligence to extend existing work on the dialectical structure of crossexamination. The existing method used conflict diagrams to search for inconsistent statements in the testimony of a witness. This paper extends the method by u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walton Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-09-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0030