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Application of Hierarchical Clusters to Obtain Legal Reference Structures

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In the fields of Legal Law, it is vitally important to know the greatest number of legal documents to make an impartial decision. In this work, we propose to identify the grouping of decision making based on the case, jurisdiction and type of applied law. For this, we apply hierarchical clusters, and the methodological application has shown that in effect the applied laws are grouped, forming a reference structure for similar cases. The work is in progress, but the initial conclusions show that it is possible to obtain group cases for decision making in legal sentences.

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Massa-Sánchez, P., Baño, N.F.P., Maurad, G.E.A., Ordoñez, R.E.R. (2022). Application of Hierarchical Clusters to Obtain Legal Reference Structures. In: Joshi, A., Mahmud, M., Ragel, R.G., Thakur, N.V. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 191. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0739-4_6

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