Facet

Facet in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Facet in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Facet may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Facets are fundamental categories, aspects, or faces of phenomena not unlike the journalists who, what, where, when, why. Facets represent fundamental characteristics by which any message can be analyzed and described. Facets also represent the important aspects of a subject area that form the basis for creating and arranging a relational classification. Thus a classification of literature might be arranged by the facets of language, nationality, genre, period, writer, theme, etc. The term comes from the French diminutive for face, facette (Websters 1966). Specialized Information Retrieval Databases Will Make Use of Much More Specialized Facets Examples of generic facets are: Facet Analysis and Faceted Syntax.

Facet Analysis in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Facet Analysis in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Facet Analysis may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The analysis of topics with respect to their basic aspects or facets.

Faceted Syntax in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Faceted Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Faceted Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Faceted syntax is used when there is a need or desire to have the individual terms or descriptors in an index heading arranged in some meaningful order. Terms are assigned to facet categories and these categories are used to determine the order of terms in the heading.