Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hartung, Dirk, Katz, Daniel Martin, Bommarito, Michael J., Gerlach, Lauritz, Jana, Abhik, Soh, Jerrold
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913112943230976
author Hartung, Dirk
Katz, Daniel Martin
Bommarito, Michael J.
Gerlach, Lauritz
Jana, Abhik
Soh, Jerrold
author_facet Hartung, Dirk
Katz, Daniel Martin
Bommarito, Michael J.
Gerlach, Lauritz
Jana, Abhik
Soh, Jerrold
contents We summarize the current state of the field of NLP & Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a nearly complete corpus of nearly one thousand NLP & Law related papers published between 2013-2024. Our analysis highlights several major trends. Namely, we document an increasing number of papers written, tasks undertaken, and languages covered over the course of the past decade. We observe an increase in the sophistication of the methods which researchers deployed in this applied context. Legal NLP is beginning to match not only the methodological sophistication of general NLP but also the professional standards of data availability and code reproducibility observed within the broader scientific community. We believe all of these trends bode well for the future of the field and point to an exciting next phase for the Legal NLP community.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2302_12039
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain
Hartung, Dirk
Katz, Daniel Martin
Bommarito, Michael J.
Gerlach, Lauritz
Jana, Abhik
Soh, Jerrold
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
We summarize the current state of the field of NLP & Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a nearly complete corpus of nearly one thousand NLP & Law related papers published between 2013-2024. Our analysis highlights several major trends. Namely, we document an increasing number of papers written, tasks undertaken, and languages covered over the course of the past decade. We observe an increase in the sophistication of the methods which researchers deployed in this applied context. Legal NLP is beginning to match not only the methodological sophistication of general NLP but also the professional standards of data availability and code reproducibility observed within the broader scientific community. We believe all of these trends bode well for the future of the field and point to an exciting next phase for the Legal NLP community.
title Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12039