Concept extraction from legal cases: The use of a statistic of coincidence

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 142-146

  Moens, Marie Francine ^a   Angheluta, Roxana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

concept extraction; conceptual information retrieval; ontology building

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT EXTRACTION; CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; COURT DECISIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEGAL CASE; LEGAL CONCEPTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; ONTOLOGY BUILDING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34547961989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047788.1047823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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