Streamlining legal research
October 23, 2006
One of the interesting challenges in conducting legal research is coming up with every possible permutation and combination of words that counsel, judges and magistrates might use to describe something. Did the police administer a breathalyser test? A breath test? A breath analysis? A breath analysis test? The list goes on, and this is simply for describing a fairly mundane device. With the appropriate semantic data attached to these terms, or with logic embedded in the search engine, any of the above searches could produce the results for all of them. But isn’t that cheating just a little?
