Guidelines for the Annotation and Visualization of Legal Argumentation Structures in Chinese Judicial Decisions
A new guideline has been proposed for annotating and visualizing legal argumentation structures within Chinese judicial decisions. This framework, grounded in legal reasoning theories, aims to clarify the logical organization of judicial thought for computational analysis. It distinguishes between non-propositional elements like 'Issue' and propositional layers including normative and factual judgments, with defined relations such as 'Support' and 'Attack' to capture argumentative connections. The guideline also specifies formal representation rules, visualization conventions, and an annotation workflow to ensure reproducibility and support large-scale analysis in areas like legal argument mining and AI-assisted legal analysis. AI