LEXA: Building knowledge bases for automatic legal citation classification

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Highlights：

• Legal citation classification system using knowledge acquisition.

• Rule language based on regular expressions of annotations.

• Facilitate the acquisition and maintenance of rules leveraging the available corpus.

• The system outperforms machine learning classifiers on different datasets.

摘要

•Legal citation classification system using knowledge acquisition.•Rule language based on regular expressions of annotations.•Facilitate the acquisition and maintenance of rules leveraging the available corpus.•The system outperforms machine learning classifiers on different datasets.

论文关键词：Knowledge acquisition,Natural language processing,Citation analysis,Legal documents

论文评审过程：Available online 28 April 2015, Version of Record 15 May 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.04.022