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2009
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Segmentation of legal documents

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Segmentation of legal documents
An overwhelming number of legal documents is available in digital form. However, most of the texts are usually only provided in a semi-structured form, i.e. the documents are structured only implicitly using text formatting and alignment. In this form the documents are perfectly understandable by a human, but not by a machine. This is an obstacle towards advanced intelligent legal information retrieval and knowledge systems. The reason for this lack of structured knowledge is that the conversion of texts in conventional form into a structured, machine-readable form, a process called segmentation, is frequently done manually and is therefore very expensive. We introduce a trainable system based on state-of-the-art Information Extraction techniques for the automatic segmentation of legal documents. Our system makes special use of the implicitly given structure in the source digital file as well as of the explicit knowledge about the target structure. Our evaluation on the French IPR La...
Eneldo Loza Mencía
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICAIL
Authors Eneldo Loza Mencía
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