A text mining approach to assist the general public in the retrieval of legal documents

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 280-290

  Chen, Yen Liang ^a   Liu, Yi Hung ^a   Ho, Wu Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Straits Exchange Foundation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

information retrieval; text mining

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PUBLICS; LEGAL DOCUMENTS; LEGAL ISSUES; LEGAL PROBLEMS; RESEARCH TOPICS; TEXT MINING; TEXT MINING TECHNIQUES;

AUTHENTICATION; CRIME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84872893410     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22767     Document Type: Article

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