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    "pk": 33041,
    "title": "Case-Based Comparative Evaluation in TRUTH-TELLER",
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    "abstract": "Case-based comparative evaluation appears to be an important strat?egy for addressing problems in weak analytic domains, such as the law \nand practical ethics. Comparisons to paradigm, hypothetical, or past \ncases may help a reasoner make decisions about a current dilemma. W e \nare investigating the uses of comparative evaluation in practical ethical \nreasoning, and whether recent philosophical models of casuistic rea?somng in medical ethics may contribute to developing models of com?parative evaluation. A good comparative reasoner, we believe, should \nbe able to integrate abstract knowledge of reasons and principles into \nits analysis and still take a problem's context and details adequately \ninto account. TRUTH-TELLER is a program we have developed that \ncompares pairs of cases presentmg ethical dilemmas about whether to \ntell the truth by marshaling relevant similarities and differences in a \ncontext sensitive manner. The program has a variety of methods for \nreasoning about reasons. These include classifying reasons as prin?cipled or altruistic, comparing the strengths of reasons, and qualifying \nreasons by participants' roles and the criticality of consequences. W e \ndescribe a knowledge representation and comparative evaluation pro?cess for this domain. In an evaluation of the program, five professional \nethicists scored the program's output for randomly-selected pairs of \ncases. The work contributes to context sensitive similarity assessment \nand to models of argumentation in weak analytic domains.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Bruce",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "McLaren",
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            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Kevin",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Ashley",
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            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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