AVERs: An argument visualization tool for representing stories about evidence

Abstract

This paper proposes an architecture for a sense-making sys- tem for crime investigation named AVERs (Argument Vi- sualization for Evidential Reasoning based on stories). It is targeted at crime investigators who may use it to explain initially observed facts by drawing links between these facts and hypothesized events, and to connect the thus created stories to evidence through argumentation. AVERs draws on a combination of ideas from visualizing argumentation and anchored narratives theory.