@InProceedings{JURIX06,
  author     = "M. Klein and W. van Steenbergen and E.Uijttenbroek 
                and Arno Lodder and F. van Harmelen",  
  title      = "Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law",  
  booktitle  = "Proceedings of the 19th International JURIX conference",  
  editor     = "Tom van Engers",  
  month      = "December 5-7",  
  year       = "2006",  
  publisher  = "IOS Press",
  ISBN       = "978-1-58603-698-0 ",
  abstract   =
"In the context of intelligent disclosure of case law, we report on our
findings on methods for retrieving relevant case law within the domain
of tort law from a repository of 68.000 court verdicts. We apply a
thesaurus-based technique to find specific legal situations. It appears
that statistical measures of term relevance are not sufficient, but that
explicit knowledge about specific formulations used in law and case law
are required to distinguish relevant case law from irrelevant. In
addition, we found out that the retrieving legal concepts with an
'interpretive' character requires a different method than concepts do
not require additional interpretation.",
  keywords = {Semantic Web},
  urlPaper = "http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/JURIX06.pdf"
}

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