Evaluating legal information retrieval systems: How do the ranked-retrieval methods of westlaw and lexis measure up?

Legal Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 53-67

  Gerson, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freestyle; Legal research; Lexis; Natural language; Online; Westlaw; Win

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249177606     PISSN: 0270319X     EISSN: 1540949X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J113v17n04_04     Document Type: Article

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