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Legal and Ethical Issues of Text/Data Mining in Research
A. Charlesworth⁎; E.L. Tonkin†,‡ ⁎ University of Bristol Law School, Bristol, UK† Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, UK‡ Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Univeristy of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract
When considering the range of legal and ethical issues that can arise from text/data mining practices in academic research, the comparative paucity of literature addressing those issues, as well as the apparent lack of any community or discipline-generated ethical framework or initiative, is striking. It is suggested that while technical expertise in this space may be developing apace, ...
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