Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2023
Abstract
In this paper, we summarize the current state of the field of NLP and Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a corpus of more than six hundred NLP and Law related papers published over the past decade. 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. Slowly but surely, Legal NLP is beginning to match the methodological sophistication of general NLP. We believe this to be a positive trend for the future of the field, but many questions in both the academic and commercial sphere still remain open.
Discipline
Programming Languages and Compilers | Science and Technology Law
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law
First Page
1
Last Page
13
Identifier
10.48550/arXiv.2302.12039
Publisher
SSRN
Citation
KATZ, Daniel Martin; HARTUNG, Dirk; GERLACH, Lauritz; JANA, Abhik; and BOMMARITO, Michael J. II.
Natural language processing in the legal domain. (2023). 1-13.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4527
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