XML as a means to support information extraction from legal documents

Computer Systems Science and Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 263-277

  Martínez, M Mercedes ^a   De La Fuente, Pablo ^a   Derniame, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Legal documents; XML

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLISHING; SEMANTICS;

DTD; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LEGAL DOCUMENTS;

XML;

EID: 18744433371     PISSN: 02676192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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