Evidence for backing statements

I've been lurking & reading the discussion with interest.

It might be worth pointing out that there is an ongoing attempt to 
classify/ represent evidential links/ weight/ etc. started in the legal 
domain by people such as Wigmore and continued by people such as David 
Schum & William Twining. There's currently a Leverhulme-sponsored 
research programme on "Evidence Science", centered at UCL, London.

Such efforts don't seem to easily map to rdf (they're often based on 
Bayesian models), but might provide some inspiration, although some of 
the legal niceties may be unnecessary.

I also know that the issue has been looked at by some in the 
argumentation community, where the "source" of the rules that make the 
argument need to be defined.

If anyone is interested in these, please contact me off-list.

Thanks,

Matt


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