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Autores principales: Dovier, Agostino, Dreossi, Talissa, Formisano, Andrea, Strizzolo, Benedetta
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03844
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author Dovier, Agostino
Dreossi, Talissa
Formisano, Andrea
Strizzolo, Benedetta
author_facet Dovier, Agostino
Dreossi, Talissa
Formisano, Andrea
Strizzolo, Benedetta
contents We propose an approach to model articles of the Italian Criminal Code (ICC), using Answer Set Programming (ASP), and to semi-automatically learn legal rules from examples based on prior judicial decisions. The developed tool is intended to support legal experts during the criminal trial phase by providing reasoning and possible legal outcomes. The methodology involves analyzing and encoding articles of the ICC in ASP, including "crimes against the person" and property offenses. The resulting model is validated on a set of previous verdicts and refined as necessary. During the encoding process, contradictions may arise; these are properly handled by the system, which also generates possible decisions for new cases and provides explanations through a tool that leverages the "supportedness" of stable models. The automatic explainability offered by the tool can also be used to clarify the logic behind judicial decisions, making the decision-making process more interpretable. Furthermore, the tool integrates an inductive logic programming system for ASP, which is employed to generalize legal rules from case examples.
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spellingShingle XAI-LAW: A Logic Programming Tool for Modeling, Explaining, and Learning Legal Decisions
Dovier, Agostino
Dreossi, Talissa
Formisano, Andrea
Strizzolo, Benedetta
Artificial Intelligence
We propose an approach to model articles of the Italian Criminal Code (ICC), using Answer Set Programming (ASP), and to semi-automatically learn legal rules from examples based on prior judicial decisions. The developed tool is intended to support legal experts during the criminal trial phase by providing reasoning and possible legal outcomes. The methodology involves analyzing and encoding articles of the ICC in ASP, including "crimes against the person" and property offenses. The resulting model is validated on a set of previous verdicts and refined as necessary. During the encoding process, contradictions may arise; these are properly handled by the system, which also generates possible decisions for new cases and provides explanations through a tool that leverages the "supportedness" of stable models. The automatic explainability offered by the tool can also be used to clarify the logic behind judicial decisions, making the decision-making process more interpretable. Furthermore, the tool integrates an inductive logic programming system for ASP, which is employed to generalize legal rules from case examples.
title XAI-LAW: A Logic Programming Tool for Modeling, Explaining, and Learning Legal Decisions
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03844