Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases: 69 (Law and Philosophy Library, 69) - Hardcover

Stranieri, Andrew; Zeleznikow, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402030363 ISBN 13: 9781402030369

Publisher: Springer, 2005

Synopsis

Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is the first text to describe data mining techniques as they apply to law. Law students, legal academics and applied information technology specialists are guided thorough all phases of the knowledge discovery from databases process with clear explanations of numerous data mining algorithms including rule induction, neural networks and association rules. Throughout the text, assumptions that make data mining in law quite different to mining other data are made explicit.  Issues such as the selection of commonplace cases, the use of discretion as a form of open texture, transformation using argumentation concepts and evaluation and deployment approaches are discussed at length.

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Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is the first text to describe data mining
techniques as they apply to law. Law students, legal academics and applied information technology specialists are guided thorough all phases of the knowledge discovery from databases process with clear explanations of numerous data mining algorithms including rule induction, neural networks and association rules. Throughout the text, assumptions that make data mining in law quite different to mining other data are made explicit.  Issues such as the selection of commonplace cases, the use of discretion as a form of open texture, transformation using argumentation concepts and evaluation and deployment approaches are discussed at length.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402030363
• ISBN 13: 9781402030369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310