Classification and clustering for case-based criminal summary judgments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 252-261

  Liu, Chao Lin ^a   Chang, Cheng Tsung ^a   Ho, Jim How ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

case classification; case clustering; case based reasoning; chinese legal information system; k nearest neighbor; rule based reasoning

Indexed keywords

CASE CLASSIFICATION; CASE CLUSTERING; CHINESE LEGAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; RULE BASED REASONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CRIME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 3142624521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047788.1047840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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