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May/June 2005 (Vol. 22, No. 3)
pp. 94-100
Mining Text for Expert Witnesses
Christopher Dozier, Thomson Legal and Regulatory
Peter Jackson, Thomson Legal and Regulatory
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Text mining is a relatively new research area associated with the creation of novel information resources from electronic text repositories. An expert-witness database based on text from legal, medical, and news documents demonstrates the successful application of text-mining techniques.
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[4] P. Jackson et al., "Information Extraction from Case Law and Retrieval of Prior Cases," Artificial Intelligence, vol. 150, nos. 1–2, 2003, pp. 239–290.
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Index Terms- document and text processing, document analysis, administrative data processing, law
Citation:
Christopher Dozier, Peter Jackson,
"Mining Text for Expert Witnesses,"
IEEE Software,
vol. 22,
no. 3,
pp. 94-100,
May/Jun,
2005
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