Undecided Is Information: Turning Legal Reasoning Gaps into the Next Question
TL;DR for operators A compliance system does not always fail because the rules conflict. Sometimes it has identified the relevant rules but lacks one or more facts needed to determine whether any of them is satisfied. Bouche-Pillon and Zarat’s legal decision-support framework1 makes that distinction operational. It represents cases and legal knowledge as knowledge graphs, executes formalized rules, handles defaults and exceptions, combines the surviving results into an overall normative conclusion, and connects decided outcomes back to their legal sources. ...