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Locating related regulations using a comparative analysis approach

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Kincho H. LawAuthors Info & Claims

dg.o '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research

Pages 229 - 238

https://doi.org/10.1145/1146598.1146662

Published: 21 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The sheer volume and complexity of government regulations make any attempt to locate, understand and interpret the information a daunting task. Other factors, such as the scattered distribution of the regulations across many sources, different terminologies and cross referencing, further complicate the technical issues in developing a regulation information management system. This paper describes a comparative analysis approach and its potential application to assist locating relevant regulations from different sources. Examples from environmental regulations are employed to illustrate the proposed methodology and framework.

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Locating related regulations using a comparative analysis approach
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking

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Law KLau GFerriero DPardo TQian H(2012)REGNETProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance10.1145/2463728.2463764(175-183)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2012
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