Title :
A thesaurus for improving information retrieval in an integrated legal expert system
Author :
Cammelli, Antonio ; Socci, Fiorenza
Author_Institution :
Ist. per la Documentazione Giuridica, CNR, Florence, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents a critical analysis of a legal expert system architecture, focusing the knowledge representation that represents the most important step in the construction of a modern legal information system. After a long period of experience, we can speak of global systems, because the formalized system knowledge is only a part of system data that may be improved to the user also from a periferic data bases. The new legal systems are tools that can offer information for decision aid and user consulting from different modules and also they offer a sophisticated information retrieval founded, for instance, upon hypertext models or thesauri
Keywords :
expert systems; hypermedia; information retrieval; knowledge representation; law administration; thesauri; critical analysis; decision aid; hypertext models; information retrieval; integrated legal expert system; knowledge representation; legal information system; periferic data bases; thesauri; thesaurus; Artificial intelligence; Expert systems; Information retrieval; Information technology; Knowledge representation; Law; Legal factors; Postal services; Read only memory; Thesauri;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1998. Proceedings. Ninth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8353-8
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.1998.707467
