• DocumentCode
    1424320
  • Title

    LawBot: a multiagent assistant for legal research

  • Author

    Debnath, Sandip ; Sen, Sandip ; Blackstock, Brent

  • Author_Institution
    Tulsa Univ., OK, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    LawBot is a system of Internet based agents that help to collect and organize the statutes and case histories relevant to a legal search. The system includes an ontology that maps colloquial terms to corresponding legal terminology, thus simplifying the system´s use by people outside the legal profession
  • Keywords
    Internet; information retrieval; law administration; search engines; software agents; Internet based agents; LawBot; case histories; colloquial terms; legal profession; legal research; legal search; legal terminology; multiagent assistant; ontology; statutes; Constitution; Costs; Databases; Indexes; Information processing; Internet; Law; Legal factors; Libraries; Search engines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4236.895013
  • Filename
    895013