Information extraction from case law and retrieval of prior cases

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 239-290

  Jackson, Peter ^a   Al Kofahi, Khalid ^b   Tyrrell, Alex ^b   Vachher, Arun ^b  

^a Thomson Legal and Regulatory   (United States)

^b Thomson Legal and Regulatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Case history; Case law; Information extraction; Legal publishing; Partial parsing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING;

LEGAL PUBLISHING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0142166361     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(03)00106-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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