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{{Short description|Creating keywords to index legal documents}}

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'''Legal coding''' is the process of creating summary or [[Index term|keyword]] data from a document. It is widely used in the [[legal profession]] to create a fast-search index or [[database]] of documents for use in [[litigation]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Godfrey |first1=Nicholas |last2=Burdon |first2=Mark |date=February 2024 |title=Fidelity in legal coding: applying legal translation frameworks to address interpretive challenges |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |journal=[[Information & Communications Technology Law]] |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=153-176 |doi=10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |access-date=February 16, 2025|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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'''Legal coding''' is the process of creating summary or [[Index term|keyword]] data from a document. It is widely used in the [[legal profession]] to create a fast-search index or [[database]] of documents for use in [[litigation]].

Objective Coding Definitions

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Subjective coding is the indexing of documents according to [[subjectivity|subjective]] data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more reliable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.

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