State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence applied to the Legal Domain
It addresses the problem of enhancing legal text analysis for legal professionals and researchers, but it is incremental as it focuses on summarizing existing advances rather than introducing new methods.
This paper provides an overview of how recent advances in Natural Language Processing are being applied to improve legal text analysis, contextualizing these developments within the broader field of AI in law.
While Artificial Intelligence applied to the legal domain is a topic with origins in the last century, recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are posed to revolutionize it. This work presents an overview and contextualizes the main advances on the field of Natural Language Processing and how these advances have been used to further the state of the art in legal text analysis.