Natural language processing in CLIME, a multilingual legal advisory system

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-132

  Evans, Roger ^a   Piwek, Paul ^b   Cahill, Lynne ^c   Tipper, Neil ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE ENGINES; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; WEB SERVICES;

CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN MODEL; FORMALISED LEGAL INFERENCE RULES; LEGAL ADVISORY SYSTEM;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 37249052727     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135132490600427X     Document Type: Article

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