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The exploration of legal text corpora with hierarchical neural networks: a guided tour in public international law

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                ICAIL '97: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
                June 1997
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                ISBN:0897919246
                DOI:10.1145/261618

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