Framework for Financial Reasoning (Brainstorming)

Inspired by the Framework for Legal Reasoning explained in the book Legal Informatics that is based on the paper ANGELIC II: An Improved Methodology for Representing Legal Domain Knowledge; I am going to create a Framework for Financial Reasoning using those techniques and see what I can get that system to do.

Systematic computational analysis of general purpose financial reports is a tool needed to work with such reports in the information age.

I am going to use the XBRL technical syntax to represent the rules. I am going to use the certainty factor model used by domains like medicine and legal.  This, from the link above, explains the certainty factor model:

The certainty-factor (CF) model is a method for managing uncertainty in rule-based systems for medicine and other domains that included the assumptions that faults or hypotheses were mutually exclusive and exhaustive, and pieces of evidence were conditionally independent, given each fault or hypothesis.

What this seems to do is enable a mixture of deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.  Basically, "fuzzy logic".  But this may turn out to be a combination of what something like what LLMs and transformers can do combined with a knowledge graph.  Not sure of the relationship between LLMs/transformers and fuzzy logic.  They sort of seem to do similar sorts of things.

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