An e-government information architecture for regulation analysis and compliance assistance

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 60, Issue , 2004, Pages 461-470

  Lau, Gloria T ^a   Kerrigan, Shawn ^a   Law, Kincho H ^a   Wiederhold, Gio ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

compliance check; e government; e rulemaking; legal informatics; shallow parsing; similarity analysis; text mining

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; INFORMATICS; SHALLOW PARSING; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; TEXT MINING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 77954481296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1052220.1052279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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