Evidentiary Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of the Judicial Proof

Abstract

This article shows a structured process through the use of the “Intelligent Judge” expert system, to assist judges in the construction of inferences or evidentiary arguments based on the evidence, facts, and hypotheses or allegations that are considered in the stages of evidentiary activity in the judicial process. The analytical-synthetic method is used in the construction of these inferences or evidential arguments. The aforementioned process integrates, in a synergic way, the reasoning and the experience of the human judge with the precision and speed of artificial intelligence for the production of the judgement that decides the judicial process.

Keywords

• predictive analysis
• artificial intelligence
• expert systems
• evidence
• proof
• facts
• hypothesis
• baconian probabilities
• fuzzy logic
• on balance function