摘要 |
<p>Every year, professional classifiers at West Group manually classify over 350,000 headnotes, or abstracts of judicial opinions across approximately 82,000 separate classes of the Key Number System (130). Although most headnotes are classified from the memory of classifiers, a significant number are difficult and thus costly to classify (130) manually. Accordingly, the inventors devised systems (120), methods, and software that facilitate manual classification (120) of headnotes and documents generally hard-to-classify and particularly headnotes. One exemplary system provides a graphical user interface (114) that concurrently displays an unclassified headnote (140), a ranked list of one or more candidate classes, a candidate class in combination with adjacent classes of the classification system (100), and at least one classified headnote associated with one of the candidate classes.</p> |