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ICAIL '99: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
ACM1999 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
ICAIL99: 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law Oslo Norway June 14 - 17, 1999
ISBN:
978-1-58113-165-9
Published:
14 June 1999
Sponsors:
SIGAI, NRCCL, IAAIL

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Contributors
  • University of Oslo
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS

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Overall Acceptance Rate 69 of 169 submissions, 41%
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ICAIL '15583052%
ICAIL '13531732%
ICAIL '09582238%
Overall1696941%