Automatic summarisation of legal documents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 243-251

  Grover, Claire ^a   Hachey, Ben ^a   Hughson, Ian ^a   Korycinski, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGAL DOCUMENTS; LEGAL DOMAINS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; PREDICTIVE CAPACITY; RULE BASED; SMALL SAMPLES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34047204841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047788.1047839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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