Legal Text Retrieval and Information Services in Digital Era

Abstract

India being a huge country by population has lots of court judgments available on print format to various law libraries of the country. Keeping in view the user demand into the library, this article touches the need for computerized legal text retrieval and information services for providing effective services to the users. Part of the discussion in this paper is the process of legal text retrieval that includes search file, search strategies and legal metadata, where search strategies include constructing a search request with the use of boolean operators. Problems of synonyms and homonyms are also covered in this article and in the end the legal information services in modern era are discussed which include online and offline databases.