Legal information retrieval and application to E-rulemaking

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 146-154

  Lau, Gloria T ^a   Law, Kincho H ^a   Wiederhold, Gio ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

E rulemaking; Regulatory comparison; Relatedness analysis; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; E-RULEMAKING; EUROPEAN AGENCY; FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS; GENERIC FEATURES; GOVERNING BODIES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HANDCRAFTED RULES; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES; LEGAL DOCUMENTS; LEGAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; PILOT STUDIES; PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REGULATORY STRUCTURE; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TEXT MINING; XML FORMAT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 33746101692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1165485.1165508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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