Vocabulary

Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Vocabulary control and management are the efforts to deal with the enormous variability of human language and the unpredictability of how a particular concept might be named in a particular Information Retrieval database. Solutions currently in use, or suggested, to assist searchers with vocabulary problems include: