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Hypertext may represent a new paradigm capable of exploring legal sources within which links are established according to pertinent relationships found between statute texts and case law. However, to discover relevant information in such a network, a browsing mechanism is not enough when faced with a large volume of texts. This paper describes a new retrieval model where documents are represented according to both their content and relationships with other sources of information.
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Savoy, J. Searching information in legal hypertext systems. Artif Intell Law 2, 205–232 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871890
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