Artificial intelligence extracts key insights from legal documents to predict intimate partner femicide

Esperanza Garcia-Vergara1, Nerea Almeda2, Francisco Fernández-Navarro3

  • 1Department of Quantitative Methods, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain. egvergara@uloyola.es.

Scientific Reports
|October 24, 2023
PubMed

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