NDLI: Similarity in harder cases: sentencing for fraud

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Nonn, Éva Murbach, Ruth
Abstract	We focus on one of the central concepts of case-based reasoning: similarity. In the field of sentencing, where the really decided cases are often on the harder side, similarity is multidimensional and depends less on formal rules than on various legitimate principles, objectives and factors which relate to the offender, the victim, the act and its social context. The paper presents our data base of empirically analysed cases of fraud and discusses two of the different phases completed to reduce complexity: (1) a decision topology whose categories emerged from in-depth interviews with judges, Crown and defense attorneys and which proved to be statistically significant; (2) experimenting with FXS, a program designed to retrieve similar cases based on their degree of salience. The salience coefficient used is a measure of similarity based on relative high or low frequency of factors in their local context. Particularly promising, although not yet formally explained, are FXS' flexible weighting possibilities.
Starting Page	236
Ending Page	244
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897916069
DOI	10.1145/158976.159006
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1993-08-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Similarity in harder cases: sentencing for fraud