Legal Text Retrieval and Information Services in Digital Era
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2005-02-02
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
India being a huge country by population has lots of court judgments available on print
format to various law libraries of the country. Keeping in view the user demand into the
library, this article touches the need for computerized legal text retrieval and information
services for providing effective services to the users. Part of the discussion in this paper is
the process of legal text retrieval that includes search file, search strategies and legal
metadata, where search strategies include constructing a search request with the use of
boolean operators. Problems of synonyms and homonyms are also covered in this article
and in the end the legal information services in modern era are discussed which include
online and offline databases.
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Legal text retrieval, Legal metadata, Information services