Abstracting of Legal Cases: The Potential of Clustering Based on the Selection of Representative Objects.

The SALOMON project automatically summarizes Belgian criminal cases to improve access to existing and future court decisions. This article gives background information about the texts of the cases and describes the output, design models, and architecture of the SALOMON system. Evaluation of 700 criminal cases demonstrates that the algorithms have an application potential for automatic indexing, abstracting, and text linking. (Author/AEF)