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Ontologies in legal information systems; the need for explicit specifications of domain conceptualisations

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Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon,

Pepijn R. S. VisserAuthors Info & Claims

ICAIL '97: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law

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https://doi.org/10.1145/261618.261646

Published: 30 June 1997 Publication History

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