Research Paper Accepted to Esteemed NLLP 2020

Trailblazing AI research by Regology in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - a year-long effort in conjunction with UIUC has been accepted to KDD’s esteemed Natural Legal Language Process (NLLP) 2020 Workshop.

AuthorsDominic Seyler,  Paul Bruin, Pavan Bayyapu, Cheng Xiang Zhai

Abstract

Terms in the laws of a legislature can be highly contextual: especially for corpora of codified laws and regulations where the reader has to be aware of the correct context when the corpus lacks a single level of hierarchy. The goal of this work is to assist professionals when reading legal text within a codified corpus by finding contextually consistent information units. To achieve this, we combine NLP and data mining techniques to develop a novel methodology that can find these information units in an unsupervised manner. Our method draws on expert experience and is modelled to emulate the “contextualization process” of experienced readers of legal content. We experimentally evaluate our method by comparing it to multiple expert-annotated datasets and find that our method achieves near-perfect performance on four state corpora and high precision on one federal corpus.

Full text of the paper at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2645/short1.pdf

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