SALOMON: Automatic Abstracting of Legal Cases for Effective Access to Court Decisions

Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-79

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatic abstracting; Case indexing; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DECISION MAKING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING; CASE INDEXING;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 0032022293     PISSN: 09248463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008256030548     Document Type: Article

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