Cross-lingual legal information retrieval using a WordNet architecture

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 163-167

  Dini, Luca ^a   Peters, Wim ^b   Liebwald, Doris ^c   Schweighofer, Erich ^c   Mommers, Laurens ^d   Voermans, Wim ^d  

^a CELI ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; HYBRID APPROACH; LEGAL DEFINITION; LEGAL DOMAINS; LEGAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORDNET;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 34250653190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1165485.1165510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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