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This paper describes a qualitative study of information-seeking behavior patterns of students at the Villanova University School of Law Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic. The interactions of law student researchers with legal information systems were observed, as well as the overall context of use of those systems. The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework for legal information behavior. A strong conceptual framework can be used by librarians and system designers to develop improved legal information systems, services, and instruction.
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In this poster, we present a method for extracting queries related to real-life events, or news-related queries, from large web query logs. The method employs query frequencies and search over a collection of recent news. News-related queries can be helpful for disambiguating user information needs, as well as for effective online news processing. The performed evaluation proves that the method yields good precision.
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Web-search queries are typically short and ambiguous. To classify these queries into certain target categories is a difficult but important problem. In this article, we present a new technique called query enrichment, which takes a short query and maps it to intermediate objects. Based on the collected intermediate objects, the query is then mapped to target categories. To build the necessary mapping functions, we use an ensemble of search engines to produce an enrichment of the queries. Our...
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"This essay examines the ambition to taxonomize law and the different methods a legal taxonomer might employ. Two possibilities predominate. The first is a reason-based taxonomy that classifies legal rules and decisions according to “legal principles” thought to justify them. Reason-based taxonomy of this type offers courts a set of high-level decisional rules, drawn from legal data, for use in deciding new cases and evaluating precedents. The second possibility is a formal taxonomy that...
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Browsing big legal databases has become a part of daily work activity in an almost every modern law o ce. Legal regulations change more often than it was in the past and to re- main up-to-date, one must use electronic media collections for help. The problem is that most popular databases take queries in formal query languages (e.g. SQL), which can be di cult for the casual database user. This project tries to determine, how the lawyers can be helped by providing natural language interface to...
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Background: Many definitions of information, knowledge, and data have been suggested throughout the history of information science. In this article, the objective is to provide definitions that are usable for the physical, biological, and social meanings of the terms, covering the various senses important to our field. Argument: Information 1 is defined as the pattern of organization of matter and energy. Information 2 is defined as some pattern of organization of matter and energy that has...
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La « re-Découverte » récente des épaves des tables alphabétiques du premier cartulaire de la collégiale Saint-Julien de Brioude, compilé vers le début du XIIe siècle, semble apporter un nouveau jalon à la connaissance générale de l’histoire de l’indexation1. A la lumière de quelques rappels généraux retraçant succinctement la chronologie des usages de l’ordre alphabétique en Occident, et après un retour sur la question de l’apparition des premières indexations, nous présenterons et...
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Automatically generated web search result categories were found to be beneficial in our previous study. In that study, we used 15 result categories and left the optimal number of categories issue deliberately untouched. To address this matter, we conducted a new experiment with 27 participants to compare search user interfaces with 10, 20, and 40 automatically generated categories. The results show that users prefer fewer categories. The use of fewer categories results in a slightly more...
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Le cursus de premier cycle en droit adopté par l'Université McGill en 1998 - le programme transsystémique - est issu du passé politique, social et intellectuel propre à sa Faculté de droit. Ce texte dresse le bilan de ces contextes et caractérise le programme comme un entretien portant sur le droit, le langage et la connaissance qui n'a cessé d'alimenter le programme d'enseignement depuis la fondation de la faculté, il y a 150 ans. Le texte débute en juxtaposant les expressions « No...
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Ce court article présente la construction d'une taxonomie dans le domaine médical couvrant un large éventail de journaux scientifiques
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Legal information is often accessible via portal web sites. Legal documents typically combine structured and unstructured information, the former being tagged with markup languages such as XML (Extensible Markup Language). Current information retrieval research takes into account the structured information content of documents when computing the relevance ranking. Such an approach is very promising for the retrieval of legal documents. This is illustrated with two retrieval models specifically designed for the retrieval of legislation.
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La Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval reçoit ses premiers étudiants en 1984. La nouvelle institution met un certain temps à convaincre les futurs avocats et notaires de l'utilité de choisir la voie universitaire plutôt que la cléricature pour acquérir leur formation de base. Les hésitations sont levées alors que les ordres professionnels deviennent des acteurs de premier plan dans l'établissement du contenu des programmes. La faculté devient, pour plus d'un siècle, une école...
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Professor Peoples reports the results of a study finding that the opinions and performance of modern legal researchers do not support the traditional notion that print digests are the tool of choice for researching legal rules while electronic databases are best suited for finding cases discussing unique factual situations. Tomorrow's lawyers are unaware of some common shortcomings of electronic research and do not possess the strategies to compensate for them. Law librarians must become...
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L'article commente sur l'utilité d'une variété d'outils de référence, incluant le Repertory. De plus, il analyse les problématiques relative à la langue.
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Recent years have seen a proliferation of sources of information available to the lawyer. This article describes one publisher’s efforts to provide a more effective means of accessing information across the range of media available. It outlines the development of a controlled vocabulary and its application to both electronic and printed indexes.
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Purpose - This paper seeks to report an investigation into the ways in which end-users perceive a thesaurus-enhanced search interface, in particular thesaurus and search interface usability. Design/methodology/approach - Thirty academic users, split between staff and postgraduate students, carrying out real search requests were observed during this study. Users were asked to comment on a range of thesaurus and interface characteristics including: ease of use, ease of learning, ease of...
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