Deep semantic interpretations of legal texts

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 217-224

  McCarty, L Thorne ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational semantics; Information extraction; Legal texts; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPLEX SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LEGAL TEXTS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548027022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276318.1276361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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