Information Extraction from Court Rulings: A Comprehensive Guide

Information Extraction is a promising technique, which is used for extracting the key information from large volume of unstructured text sources. The benefits of its basic functionalities include the identification of named entities, relations and events from text sources. Many domains such as social media, biomedical, chemical, healthcare, insurance etc., started using Information Extraction techniques to extract key information from their large volume of text data. These key information serve as the basis for further applications including Text Analytics. However, the applications of IE still remain untouched in many domains. Indian Judicial domain is one such example. While a number of Information Extraction works have been carried out in judicial domain of other countries, there exists few works based on Indian e-judgments. To start with, this book explains intelligent Information Extraction system for Indian e-judgements towards constructing a knowledge graph in judicial domain.