Summarizing court decisions

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1748-1764

  Moens, Marie Francine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Legal document management; Summarization

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TEXT PROCESSING;

LEGAL DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; SUMMARIZATION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 34547927218     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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