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    ROM & BIRLIOGRAPHY © Ng Po 16g LEGAL RDS enePRENCESS roe ine P2007) Ret Ge to Conan Ke Research i ica proes hi re and. Waiting for ogolresnreh eur! tree ED) el : Paraler coord Edition, Aspen Publishors, Ine: New tent vn Sys Say vik, 208 gl ewes oe Pe ai'tndenta! the tro 108 Hon, Nolo Pal. USA tuna! Nasal Law Laer, University of Marland Seho! of unde teat Herel? 2000) prema u se Pps Mant of al Wing Ain ‘onlin, (206) 2. fas, Retox of Court, ands Tost Const ef the Plppines [a9 tes of Cet Proc ‘het 816, evi Penal Cade of tho Philippines Aepule Aet 86, che Now Civil Cade ofthe Philippines ovine Rule of Criminal Procedure Reviged Rules on Bvideneo a. Wobsivos: Taps tte gurl 2706 nt Input kip. ore Htpeweb'21o0qowliMestp hacen hitmen congetss. 204.05 hitp/imew supremecourt.gor. oh if g-0 pie 208, CHAPTER 10 COMPUTER ASSISTED LEGAL RESEARCH (CALR) ovrLine 1. Blectronie Research Basin 2.Doslean Searching 5 old nd Sopmant Sourcing 4 Lax Lire, Lois ond Westlaw Basis 6. Lo Libre Organlzation of Matera 6. Went: Organization of Matarils ‘Lorie: Organization of Matai 8. Solsting DatabonaSources 8. Cempoaing Lox Libri, Lexis and Westlaw Searches 10, Quick Tipe for Comporing Online Searches 11, Internet Research 12. Steaogis Fr Intornot Rossarch LEARNING OBJECTIVES “Afr completing this chapter, you should understand: ‘Bloctonie Research Basis Boolean Searching lald and Sopmont Searching ‘Lex Libre: Organisation of Materials Selecting Database/Saureos (Composing Lex Libris, Lexis and Westlaw Searches ‘Quick Tips for Composing Online Searches tert Research ‘Strategies For Internet Research 1 Electronic Research Basics Information in electronic format is beooming increasingly ibundant; this ie no lose true for lgal information than it i fo {general information. As recently as afew years ag, you wanted to bo considered « cuttingodge export in computor-accistad-legal- esearch (CALR) you only had to leara tose Lexis and Westlaw ‘Whilo Lore and Weetlaw aro stil the major CALR vendors, yo" |}. LBGAL RESEARCH & BIBLIOGRAPHY © Nz Po be able to make nse of other electronic databases as well as Tnternet todo minimally eompetont research ‘The general theory of eleetmonic research comes in twos tronic information resources come in two tase Levels of {plone - either fall text reads or abstractindex records, tte ave to basis Linguist difclioe finding infomation Tonymy and ambiguity. There are two. basic epproaches for eoming thote deuce in Hnding information ~ either subject Keyword search methods. There ara two basie measures of earch ‘ciency » precision and recall. And thore aro two basic tels for ‘proving search effsiency = Boclen searching and Geld searching, 11, Completeness, Eleinic resources have varying sea of completones, Some restos yo may ave ae are al {etataimorn, for example, nevopaper article ot the Philippine ultra web ste at hipulwwn ingairerset. The Supreme Court Sate contain (altent of recent Cort deision, Other mura sbetact or intone: common example i an nlioe brary fal nis type of resource does not provide the full text of tho sm, but provides varying lve of detal about the item, and tons. for wwsioving the full text. Some vordors prod itdbaes of bath types Lex Libris, exis and Westlaw both (bes Ghat ace lent and databases Ghat aro indexes onl sesSouscrs tat ave fall txt may only have thet fot for a Bed peso afte, Heyond hat ine Name yu may have fey “ant rlrerel feo use aeubcrptonfitabave fo rtceve SE The owl of conplotoneas ea factor to consider when you 1.2, Structure. Databates azo come with varying deress ¢ stricture. For example, 4 hbrarys eatalog has Limited records, ta the information isin highly strstured format that makes it try to search for items by subject hoading, author, or tile, The Sterne can be ciasidered @ Gxiabase_ with virtually unlimited ‘Kors wad with virtually no strecure, The nature of the databace ‘Eiate he tothods that should te ised to most efcenty search spa tthe Bat steps in sucess electronic research is selecting ic ebstopeate databace and leaning enough about the databace pick en efficient search method 1.3, Linguistic Difficulties, In all research the senrchee combats some base nguste difiealties ~ ambiguity and synonymy. (CHAPTER 10-CARL 168 Electronic. research, especially fll text, compounds these

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