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  title     = "Thesaurus-based Retrieval of Case Law",
  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.",
  author    = "Klein, {Michel C. A.} and {van Steenbergen}, Wouter and Uijttenbroek, {Elisabeth M.} and Lodder, {Arno R.} and Harmelen, {Frank van}",
  year      = "2006",
  month     = "12",
  isbn      = "978-1-58603-698-0",
  pages     = "61--70",
  editor    = "Engers, {Tom van}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International JURIX conference: JURIX 2006",
  publisher = "IOS Press",
}

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