Automatic categorization of case law

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 70-77

  Thompson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Text categorization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION; AUTOMATIC TEXT CATEGORIZATION; BOOLEAN QUERIES; CASE LAW; DECISION-TREE ALGORITHM; DOMAIN EXPERTS; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; OPERATIONAL PROCESS; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0012051194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/383535.383543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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