Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law

Michel C. A. Klein; Wouter van Steenbergen; Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek; Arno R. Lodder; Frank van Harmelen

Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law

Michel C. A. Klein, Wouter van Steenbergen, Elisabeth M. Uijttenbroek, Arno R. Lodder, Frank van Harmelen

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In the context of intelligent disclosure of case law, we report on our findings on methods for retrieving relevant case law within the domain of tort law from a repository of 68.000 court verdicts. We apply a thesaurus-based technique to find specific legal situations. It appears that statistical measures of term relevance are not sufficient, but that explicit knowledge about specific formulations used in law and case law are required to distinguish relevant case law from irrelevant. In addition, we found out that the retrieving legal concepts with an ``interpretive'' character requires a different method than concepts do not require additional interpretation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International JURIX conference: JURIX 2006
Editors	Tom van Engers
Place of Publication	Paris, France
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	61-70
ISBN (Print)	978-1-58603-698-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2006

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Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law. / Klein, Michel C. A.; van Steenbergen, Wouter; Uijttenbroek, Elisabeth M. et al.
Proceedings of the 19th International JURIX conference: JURIX 2006. ed. / Tom van Engers. Paris, France: IOS Press, 2006. p. 61-70.

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