Automatic Text Structuring and Categorization As a First Step in Summarizing Legal Cases.

Moens, Marie-Francine; Uyttendaele, Caroline

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ERIC Number: EJ557261

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Publication Date: 1997

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Automatic Text Structuring and Categorization As a First Step in Summarizing Legal Cases.

Moens, Marie-Francine; Uyttendaele, Caroline

Information Processing & Management, v33 n6 p727-37 Nov 1997

Describes SALOMON (Summary and Analysis of Legal texts for Managing Online Needs), a system which automatically summarizes Belgian criminal cases to improve access to court decisions. Highlights include a text grammar represented as a semantic network; automatic abstracting; knowledge acquisition and representation; parsing; evaluation, including recall and precision; and future work. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Abstracting, Access to Information, Automation, Computer System Design, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Text Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Belgium

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