A cognitive approach to judicial opinion structure: Applying domain expertise to component analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1-11

  Conrad, Jack G ^a   Da Bney, Daniel P ^b  

^a Research and Development   (United States)

^b West Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Case law analysis; Cognitive models; Document structure

Indexed keywords

CASE LAW; COGNITIVE MODEL; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONTENT AND STRUCTURE; DOCUMENT STRUCTURE; DOMAIN EXPERTISE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; LEGAL CASE; LEGAL EXPERTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; REFINING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 0010225017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/383535.383536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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