Extractive summarisation of legal texts

Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-345

  Hachey, Ben ^a   Grover, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic text summarisation; Knowledge management; Legal discourse; Machine learning; Natural language processing; XML

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; XML;

AUTOMATIC TEXT SUMMARISATION; PHRASE INFORMATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34047209272     PISSN: 09248463     EISSN: 15728382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10506-007-9039-z     Document Type: Article

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