Information extraction from legal texts: The potential of discourse analysis

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1155-1171

  Moens, Marie Francine ^a   Uyttendaele, Caroline ^a   Dumortier, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0000520034     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0296     Document Type: Article

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