Orchestrating NLP Services for the Legal Domain
This addresses the need for efficient legal technology tools in the legal domain, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing NLP and knowledge graph components.
The paper tackles the challenge of integrating NLP services for legal applications by developing a workflow manager that orchestrates NLP and content curation services with a multilingual legal knowledge graph, enabling flexible workflow creation and experimentation with prototypical solutions.
Legal technology is currently receiving a lot of attention from various angles. In this contribution we describe the main technical components of a system that is currently under development in the European innovation project Lynx, which includes partners from industry and research. The key contribution of this paper is a workflow manager that enables the flexible orchestration of workflows based on a portfolio of Natural Language Processing and Content Curation services as well as a Multilingual Legal Knowledge Graph that contains semantic information and meaningful references to legal documents. We also describe different use cases with which we experiment and develop prototypical solutions.