| 摘要 |
<p>To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson. West, provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and related IR systems, the present inventors recognised researches often overlook some types of documents, such as legal encyclopaedias and treatises that may be useful to them. Accordingly, the present inventors devised systems, methods and software that automatically search for other types of documents not specifically targeted by user queries. One exemplary system automatically submits a user query for legal opinions to first and second database, with the first storing legal opinions and the second storing non-opinion documents, such as headnotes from the West Key Number System, articles from American Law Reports, and/or articles from American Jurisprudence.</p> |
