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Evaluation of Jurisprudence Arguments Based on Annotations of Logical Structures and Speech Acts

Authors:
Shumpei Kubosawa
Shogo Okada
Katsumi Nitta

Keywords: argument analysis; jurisprudence education; argumentation framework; Toulmin model

Abstract:
In jurisprudence education, discussion trainings by mock arbitrations, mock mediations and so on are conducted. On those trainings, students discuss an issue and experienced supervisors evaluate the discussion by observing them and make comments with respect to argumentation and other contextual abilities. However, evaluation consume much time of experts, and objective criteria for evaluation are not established yet. Besides, existing tools for supporting them are insufficient to analyze a total discussion log and compare them. Furthermore, there are hardly any objective method to analyze contextual abilities. In order to support evaluation of actual discussion records, we propose a method and supporting tools for discussion evaluation. The presented method is based on annotations of logical structure of total arguments and speech acts attached to each utterance on discussion logs. We compared evaluation result of our method to expert’s manual evaluation and showed that evaluation results by our method was similar to experts’ result.

Pages: 28 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: March 20, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3735

ISBN: 978-1-61208-461-9

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 20, 2016 to March 24, 2016