Title
Legal retrieval as support to eMediation: matching disputant's case and court decisions
Abstract
The perspective of online dispute resolution (ODR) is to develop an online electronic system aimed at solving out-of-court disputes. Among ODR schemes, eMediation is becoming an important tool for encouraging the positive settlement of an agreement among litigants. The main motivation underlying the adoption of eMediation is the time/cost reduction for the resolution of disputes compared to the ordinary justice system. In the context of eMediation, a fundamental requirement that an ODR system should meet relates to both litigants and mediators, i.e. to enable an informed negotiation by informing the parties about the rights and duties related to the case. In order to match this requirement, we propose an information retrieval system able to retrieve relevant court decisions with respect to the disputant case description. The proposed system combines machine learning and natural language processing techniques to better match disputant case descriptions (informal and concise) with court decisions (formal and verbose). Experimental results confirm the ability of the proposed solution to empower court decision retrieval, enabling therefore a well-informed eMediation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10506-015-9162-1
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Machine learning, eMediation
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1572-8382
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Soufiane El Jelali140.43
Elisabetta Fersini214020.70
Enza Messina321423.18