How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence
Haoxi Zhong, Chaojun Xiao, Cunchao Tu, Tianyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Abstract
Legal Artificial Intelligence (LegalAI) focuses on applying the technology of artificial intelligence, especially natural language processing, to benefit tasks in the legal domain. In recent years, LegalAI has drawn increasing attention rapidly from both AI researchers and legal professionals, as LegalAI is beneficial to the legal system for liberating legal professionals from a maze of paperwork. Legal professionals often think about how to solve tasks from rule-based and symbol-based methods, while NLP researchers concentrate more on data-driven and embedding methods. In this paper, we introduce the history, the current state, and the future directions of research in LegalAI. We illustrate the tasks from the perspectives of legal professionals and NLP researchers and show several representative applications in LegalAI. We conduct experiments and provide an in-depth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of existing works to explore possible future directions. You can find the implementation of our work from https://github.com/thunlp/CLAIM.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.acl-main.466
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5218–5230
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.466
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.466
- Cite (ACL):
- Haoxi Zhong, Chaojun Xiao, Cunchao Tu, Tianyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, and Maosong Sun. 2020. How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5218–5230, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence (Zhong et al., ACL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.acl-main.466.pdf
- Code
- thunlp/LegalPapers + additional community code
- Data
- JEC-QA