Anaphora resolution in the extraction of treatment history language from court opinions by partial parsing
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Brian Grom, Peter E. Jackson · 1999
This paper describes an information extraction system that identifies and analyzes statements in court opinions regarding the value of cited cases as precedents. The system employs partial parsing techniques in conjunction with a semantic grammar to identify the language associated with such rulings. The most novel aspect of the system lies in its anaphora resolution module that combines syntactic, semantic, and domain-specific inference rules with local discourse information to link such language to case references.