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Selecting information

Advanced societies generate a huge amount of information in all branches of science, technology, professional, administrative, and others. Every year, tens of thousands of scientific articles and books are published on various topics and in multiple languages.

Legal, commercial, and governmental works also produce a quantity of information in classifications, records, and volumes, most of which end up in libraries.

In this case, searching for specific information in the midst of this great sea becomes a frightening matter, whether for researchers or for those in charge of library affairs. The computer can be very useful in this field, as it stores information and classifies it accurately and tightly, thus facilitating the selection of the required information quickly and easily without oversight or error.

Legal Library

Legal works are considered the most abundant sources of information, so jurists often have to search through many volumes for previous legislation, rulings, legal texts, and their explanations. What makes matters more complicated is that the information required in a given case may not only be directly related to that case, but also extends to similar cases that the researcher may benefit from. This is what prompted libraries to adopt complex indexes that help in investigating legal texts.

The computer is used to search for legal information, either by storing all legal texts and preparing the required indexes, or by simply storing the indexes and searching them for references to a specific topic. It is noted that the storage capacity required is very large in the first method and much less in the second method, but this second method requires preparing the indexes manually and accessing the required information manually as well.

Several methods are used to store extensive texts in computer works. If we want to store 20 million words, for example, with an average length of six attributes, including the attributes of separation and stopping, the required storage capacity is 30 million sites, assuming that each storage site can accommodate

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four attributes. The required storage capacity can be reduced by using a special code to represent the words of the text. The number of different words that appear in any text may not exceed fifty thousand, including verb forms and morphology, which allows each of these words to be represented by a number between zero and fifty thousand that is stored instead of the word. If each number is represented by a digital word, it is necessary to store the original text 20 million digital words, in addition to storing fifty thousand code attributes. It may be possible to store two numbers, between zero and fifty thousand, in one storage site in large computers, then only ten million and fifty thousand storage sites are required.

The method of storing information and preparing indexes by computer is characterized by The possibility of error in it is almost non-existent, as the computer extracts from its classifications all possible references for a specific topic, while the human researcher may miss some of these references in his search in the various sources.

It is not hidden the importance of obtaining all possible references, especially in the legal field, as referring to a specific text or previous ruling may mean winning a lawsuit instead of losing it.