Hideyuki Shibuki

Using web page layout for extraction of sender names

Recently, the credibility of information available on the Web has been regarded as an important issue. Sender name is one of the important indicators of the credibility of the information. In this paper, we propose a new method for extracting sender name. The proposed method use the named entity recognition method, and reducing the DOM node using Web page Layout for preprocessing. Experimental result shows that our proposed method can effectively extract sender names when the preprocessing is successful.

Proposal of Precedents Processing System for Supporting Japanese Lay Judges

We propose law professionals and amateurs supporting system for upcoming ¿lay judge system¿. The supporting system finds past cases which are similar to a target case and estimates a sentence of target case. After describing the need of such project, we carry out an preliminary experiment to extract similar judicial precedents and estimate a sentence based on features of noun words. Then we introduce our preliminary findings and possibility of tagging and using so called Nagayama criteria used by human judges.