Slate: Specialized Legal Automated Term Extraction

SLATE is a new research project designed to extract important information from legal text. This information can then be used to automatically determine the value of various attributes significant to legal professionals such as the identity of the parties involved in a legal dispute, the outcome of a case and the amount of damages awarded. Several applications of the automatically extracted information are discussed including the efficient generation of legal case-based reasoning advisory systems, automated database maintenance and the provision at low cost of cross-reference information about cited and citing cases.

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