Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases

COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- LEGAL ISSUES IN THE DATA SELECTION PHASE -- 1. OPEN TEXTURE, DISCRETION AND KDD -- 2. STARE DECISIS -- 3. CIVIL AND COMMON LAW -- 4. SELECTING A TASK SUITABLE FOR KDD: THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN TEXTURE -- 5. SAMPLE ASSESSMENT OF THE DEGREE OF OPEN TEXTURE -- 6. SELECTING DATASET RECORDS -- 7. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- LEGAL ISSUES IN THE DATA PRE-PROCESSING PHASE -- 1. MISSING DATA -- 2. INCONSISTENT DATA -- 3. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- LEGAL ISSUES IN THE DATA TRANSFORMATION PHASE -- 1. AGGREGATING VALUES -- 2. NORMALISING -- 3. FEATURE OR EXAMPLE REDUCTION -- 4. THE USE OF ARGUMENTATION FOR RESTRUCTURING -- 5. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- DATA MINING WITH RULE INDUCTION -- 1. RULE INDUCTION WITH ID3 -- 2. USES OF RULE INDUCTION IN LAW -- 3. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- UNCERTAIN AND STATISTICAL DATA MINING -- 1. DATA MINING USING ASSOCIATION RULES -- 2. FUZZY REASONING -- 3. BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION -- 4. CERTAINTY FACTORS -- 5. NEAREST NEIGHBOUR APPROACHES -- 6. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS -- 7. KERNEL MACHINES -- 8. SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES -- 9. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- DATA MINING USING NEURAL NETWORKS -- 1. FEED FORWARD NETWORKS -- 2. NEURAL NETWORKS IN LAW -- 3. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND TEXT MINING -- 1. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASICS -- 2. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN LAW -- 3. TEXT MINING IN LAW -- 4. WEB MINING -- 5. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- EVALUATION, DEPLOYMENT AND RELATED ISSUES -- 1. GENERALISATION -- 2. BOOSTING AND BAGGING -- 3. FRAMEWORKS FOR EVALUATING LEGAL KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS -- 4. EXPLANATION -- 5. SELECTING SUITABLE FIELDS OF LAW -- 6. LEGAL ONTOLOGIES -- 7. CHAPTER SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- 1. THE VALIDITY OF USING KDD IN LEGAL DOMAINS -- 2. KDD AND REASONING WITH CASES -- 3. WHAT LEGAL DOMAINS ARE AMENABLE TO THE USE OF KDD -- 4. PREPARING LEGAL DATA FOR USE IN THE KDD PROCESS -- 5. TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING KDD IN LEGAL DATABASES -- 6. UNDERSTANDING AND JUSTIFYING THE RESULTS OF THE KDD PROCESS -- 7. HOW KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN LAW CAN ENHANCE ACCESS TO JUSTICE -- 8. CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN LAW -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY.