Abstracting of legal cases: The potential of clustering based on the selection of representative objects

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-161

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; INFORMATION USE; TEXT PROCESSING;

LEGAL CASES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SALOMON;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 0032785931     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:2<151::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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