More Advance Copies of Conference Papers on Visualization of Evidence & Inference

Advance copies of the below papers on visualization of evidence and inference are now available on the website of the Oxford journal Law, Probability and Risk. The hard copy special issue with 20+ papers and comments will be published this November or December.

Douglas Walton, Visualization tools, argumentation schemes and expert opinion evidence in law, Advance Access published on October 10, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm033

Tim van Gelder, The rationale for Rationale, Advance Access published on October 10, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm032

Ron Loui, Comment on the Cardozo conference on graphic and visual representations of evidence and inference in legal settings, Advance Access published on October 10, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm028

Thomas F. Gordon, Visualizing Carneades argument graphs, Advance Access published on October 10, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm026

Dale A. Nance, The inferential arrow: a comment on interdisciplinary conversation, Advance Access published on September 25, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm035

John D. Lowrance, Graphical manipulation of evidence in structured arguments, Advance Access published on September 25, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm011

David A. Schum and Jon R. Morris, Assessing the competence and credibility of human sources of intelligence evidence: contributions from law and probability, Advance Access published on August 28, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm025

Vern R. Walker, Visualizing the dynamics around the rule–evidence interface in legal reasoning, Advance Access published on August 19, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm015

William Twining, Argumentation, stories and generalizations: a comment, Advance Access published on August 13, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm008

Kevin D. Ashley, Comment on Lowrance's ‘Graphical manipulation of evidence in structured arguments’, Advance Access published on July 23, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm012

Floris Bex, Susan van den Braak, Herre van Oostendorp, Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij, and Gerard Vreeswijk, Sense-making software for crime investigation: how to combine stories and arguments, Advance Access published on July 7, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm007

Amanda B. Hepler, A. Philip Dawid, and Valentina Leucari, Object-oriented graphical representations of complex patterns of evidence, Advance Access originally published on May 24, 2007. This version published June 13, 2007. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgm005

New blog: Open to persuasion

See the fascinating new blog by David Price: Open to persuasion.

It appears that even the office of the prime minister of the UK is interested in strategies for mapping argument, in this instance public argument and debate about political, economic, and social issues.

David Price has software. He calls it Debatemapper. It is online software ("cloud software"?). It is free. Go to http://www.debatemapper.com to get the story (and the software) firsthand.

Your assignment, dear Reader: Discuss the links between Debatemapper and procedures such as neo-Wigmorean charting of inferential argument from and about evidence! (Thank you.)

Evidence-Based Law Librarianship?

There is a phenomenon known as evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence-based health care (EBHC). The movement toward EBM -- at least when denominated as such -- seems to be centered in the UK. There is substantial controversy about EBM. Now there is a proposal to explore the possibility of evidence-based (law) librarianship (EBL). See Evidence-Based Librarianship: An Opportunity for Law Librarians?