Automatic text structuring and categorization as a first step in summarizing legal cases

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 727-737

  Moens, Marie Francine ^a   Uyttendaele, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031270031     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00035-6     Document Type: Article

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