scholarly journals A Semantic Retrieval System for Case Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Esingbemi Princewill Ebietomere ◽  
Godspower Osaretin Ekuobase
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Semantic Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Stare Decisis ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Search And Retrieval

Abstract Legal reasoning, the core of legal practice in many countries, is “stare decisis” and its soundness is usually strengthened by relevant case law consulted. However, the task of relevant case law access and retrieval is tiring to legal practitioners and constitutes a serious drain on their productivity. Existing efforts at addressing this problem are conceptional, restrictive or unreliable. Specifically, existing semantic retrieval (SR) systems for case law are desirous of exceptional retrieval precision. Ontology promises to meet this desire, if introduced to the SR system. As a consequence, an ontology-based SR system for case law has been built using the systems analysis and design methodology. In particular, the component-based software engineering and the agile methodologies are employed to implement the system. Finally, the search and retrieval performance of the resultant SR system has been evaluated using the heuristics evaluation method. The retrieval system has shown to have a search and retrieval performance of about 94 % precision, 80 % recall and 84 % F-measure. Overall, the paper implements the SR system for case law with excellent precision and affirms the superiority of ontology approach over other semantic approaches to SR systems for document retrieval in the legal domain.

scholarly journals Optimasi Pembobotan pada Query Expansion dengan Term Relatedness to Query-Entropy based (TRQE)

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Resti Ludviani ◽  
Khadijah F. Hayati ◽  
Agus Zainal Arifin ◽  
Diana Purwitasari
Keyword(s):  
Query Expansion ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Term Weighting ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Term Selection ◽  
Relevance Evaluation ◽  
Feedback Module ◽  
Pseudo Feedback

Abstract. An appropriate selection term for expanding a query is very important in query expansion. Therefore, term selection optimization is added to improve query expansion performance on document retrieval system. This study proposes a new approach named Term Relatedness to Query-Entropy based (TRQE) to optimize weight in query expansion by considering semantic and statistic aspects from relevance evaluation of pseudo feedback to improve document retrieval performance. The proposed method has 3 main modules, they are relevace feedback, pseudo feedback, and document retrieval. TRQE is implemented in pseudo feedback module to optimize weighting term in query expansion. The evaluation result shows that TRQE can retrieve document with the highest result at precission of 100% and recall of 22,22%. TRQE for weighting optimization of query expansion is proven to improve retrieval document.     Keywords: TRQE, query expansion, term weighting, term relatedness to query, relevance feedback Abstrak..Pemilihan term yang tepat untuk memperluas queri merupakan hal yang penting pada query expansion. Oleh karena itu, perlu dilakukan optimasi penentuan term yang sesuai sehingga mampu meningkatkan performa query expansion pada system temu kembali dokumen. Penelitian ini mengajukan metode Term Relatedness to Query-Entropy based (TRQE), sebuah metode untuk mengoptimasi pembobotan pada query expansion dengan memperhatikan aspek semantic dan statistic dari penilaian relevansi suatu pseudo feedback sehingga mampu meningkatkan performa temukembali dokumen. Metode yang diusulkan memiliki 3 modul utama yaitu relevan feedback, pseudo feedback, dan document retrieval. TRQE diimplementasikan pada modul pseudo feedback untuk optimasi pembobotan term pada ekspansi query. Evaluasi hasil uji coba menunjukkan bahwa metode TRQE dapat melakukan temukembali dokumen dengan hasil terbaik pada precision  100% dan recall sebesar 22,22%.Metode TRQE untuk optimasi pembobotan pada query expansion terbukti memberikan pengaruh untuk meningkatkan relevansi pencarian dokumen.Kata Kunci: TRQE, ekspansi query, pembobotan term, term relatedness to query, relevance feedback

Figure Based Biomedical Document Retrieval System using Structural Image Features

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Harikrishna G. N. Rai ◽  
K Sai Deepak ◽  
P. Radha Krishna
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Feature Descriptor ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Retrieval Task ◽  
Edge Information ◽  
Structural Image

Multi-modal and Unstructured nature of documents make their retrieval from healthcare document repositories a challenging task. Text based retrieval is the conventional approach used for solving this problem. In this paper, the authors explore an alternate avenue of using embedded figures for the retrieval task. Usually, context of a document is directly reflected in the associated figures, therefore embedded text within these figures along with image features have been used for similarity based retrieval of figures. The present work demonstrates that image features describing the structural properties of figures are sufficient for the figure retrieval task. First, the authors analyze the problem of figure retrieval from biomedical literature and identify significant classes of figures. Second, they use edge information as a means to discriminate between structural properties of each figure category. Finally, the authors present a methodology using a novel feature descriptor namely Fourier Edge Orientation Autocorrelogram (FEOAC) to describe structural properties of figures and build an effective Biomedical document retrieval system. The experimental results demonstrate the better retrieval performance and overall improvement of FEOAC for figure retrieval task, especially when most of the edge information is retained. Apart from invariance to scale, rotation and non-uniform illumination, the proposed feature descriptor is shown to be relatively robust to noisy edges.

Improving Document Retrieval with Spelling Correction for Weak and Fabricated Indonesian-Translated Hadith

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-557
Author(s):  
Muhammad zaky ramadhan ◽  
Kemas Muslim Lhaksmana
Keyword(s):  
Retrieval System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Vector Space Model ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
Spelling Correction ◽  
Space Model ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Web

Hadith has several levels of authenticity, among which are weak (dhaif), and fabricated (maudhu) hadith that may not originate from the prophet Muhammad PBUH, and thus should not be considered in concluding an Islamic law (sharia). However, many such hadiths have been commonly confused as authentic hadiths among ordinary Muslims. To easily distinguish such hadiths, this paper proposes a method to check the authenticity of a hadith by comparing them with a collection of fabricated hadiths in Indonesian. The proposed method applies the vector space model and also performs spelling correction using symspell to check whether the use of spelling check can improve the accuracy of hadith retrieval, because it has never been done in previous works and typos are common on Indonesian-translated hadiths on the Web and social media raw text. The experiment result shows that the use of spell checking improves the mean average precision and recall to become 81% (from 73%) and 89% (from 80%), respectively. Therefore, the improvement in accuracy by implementing spelling correction make the hadith retrieval system more feasible and encouraged to be implemented in future works because it can correct typos that are common in the raw text on the Internet.

PRINCIPLE OF AUTONOMY IN LETTER OF CREDIT: MALAYSIAN PRACTICE

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosmawani Che Hashim ◽  
Ahmad Azam Othman ◽  
Akhtarzaite Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Letter Of Credit ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Method Of Payment ◽  
Almost All

The term letter of credit (LC) is not uncommon in international trade as it is the most frequently used method of payment by seller and buyer in their sales contract. LC serves its significant role by facilitating payment between buyer and seller from different countries, who are always prejudiced towards each other on the issue of payment, especially when the deal involves a huge amount of money. By using LC, the seller and buyer will be represented by their own bankers whose function, among others is to issue an LC for the buyer and pay on presentation of seller’s documents which strictly comply to LC requirements. It is well-known that LC is governed by the principle of autonomy or also referred to as the principle of independence1 which indicates LC, being a contract of payment is totally separate from the underlying sales contract. Banks are concerned with documents only and not with the goods. LC transaction can be governed by the Uniform Custom and Practice for Documentary Credit, known as the UCP through express incorporation which provides the rules relating to LC matters and is adopted in almost all LC transactions. This paper discusses the nature, background and significance of principle of autonomy in LC transaction. In elaborating the provisions on the principle of autonomy in the UCP 600, comparisons between relevant articles in the UCP 500 are highlighted. The discussion also focuses on relevant case law and on the application of the autonomy principle in conventional and Islamic LC. The paper concludes with the finding that Malaysian bankers fully subscribe to the principle of autonomy as outlined by the UCP 600.

The Domestication of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Waddington
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Domestic Law

This chapter reflects on jurisdiction-specific approaches to the domestication of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), considering in particular the domestic legal status of the CRPD and the relevance of that legal status for case law. The chapter explores four dimensions of the CRPD’s legal status: direct effect; indirect interpretative effect (where the CRPD influences the interpretation given to domestic law); use of the CRPD because of commitments to another international treaty; and absence of domestic legal status. With the exception of the first category, all dimensions can potentially present themselves in legal systems which tend towards the monist approach as well as in those which tend towards the dualist approach. The chapter discusses examples of relevant case law and reflects on similarities and differences emerging from a comparison of that case law.

Semantic Search on Unstructured Data

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kohn ◽  
François Bry ◽  
Alexander Manta
Keyword(s):  
Retrieval System ◽  
Pharmaceutical Research ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Search Performance ◽  
Adaptive Search ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Enterprise Search ◽  
Existing Data

Studies agree that searchers are often not satisfied with the performance of current enterprise search engines. As a consequence, more scientists worldwide are actively investigating new avenues for searching to improve retrieval performance. This paper contributes to YASA (Your Adaptive Search Agent), a fully implemented and thoroughly evaluated ontology-based information retrieval system for the enterprise. A salient particularity of YASA is that large parts of the ontology are automatically filled with facts by recycling and transforming existing data. YASA offers context-based personalization, faceted navigation, as well as semantic search capabilities. YASA has been deployed and evaluated in the pharmaceutical research department of Roche, Penzberg, and results show that already semantically simple ontologies suffice to considerably improve search performance.

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