A survey on challenges and advances in natural language processing with a focus on legal informatics and low-resource languages

P Krasadakis, E Sakkopoulos, VS Verykios - Electronics, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has experienced significant growth in
recent years, largely due to advancements in Deep Learning technology and especially …

A comparative study of automated legal text classification using random forests and deep learning

H Chen, L Wu, J Chen, W Lu, J Ding - Information Processing & …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Automated legal text classification is a prominent research topic in the legal field. It lays the
foundation for building an intelligent legal system. Current literature focuses on international …

Natural language processing in law: Prediction of outcomes in the higher courts of Turkey

E Mumcuoğlu, CE Öztürk, HM Ozaktas, A Koç - Information Processing & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Natural language processing (NLP) based approaches have recently received attention for
legal systems of several countries. It is of interest to study the wide variety of legal systems …

Entity linking for English and other languages: a survey

I Guellil, A Garcia-Dominguez, PR Lewis… - … and Information Systems, 2024‏ - Springer
Extracting named entities text forms the basis for many crucial tasks such as information
retrieval and extraction, machine translation, opinion mining, sentiment analysis and …

Semantic segmentation of legal documents via rhetorical roles

V Malik, R Sanjay, SK Guha, A Hazarika… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
Legal documents are unstructured, use legal jargon, and have considerable length, making
them difficult to process automatically via conventional text processing techniques. A legal …

A dataset of German legal documents for named entity recognition

E Leitner, G Rehm, J Moreno-Schneider - arxiv preprint arxiv:2003.13016, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
We describe a dataset developed for Named Entity Recognition in German federal court
decisions. It consists of approx. 67,000 sentences with over 2 million tokens. The resource …

Named-entity recognition in Turkish legal texts

C Çetindağ, B Yazıcıoğlu, A Koç - Natural Language Engineering, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Natural language processing (NLP) technologies and applications in legal text processing
are gaining momentum. Being one of the most prominent tasks in NLP, named-entity …

Knowledge-enhanced model with dual-graph interaction for confusing legal charge prediction

S Bi, Z Ali, T Wu, G Qi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The rapid development of natural language processing (NLP) technologies has enabled the
emergence of legal intelligence assistance systems, with legal charge prediction (LCP) …

German BERT model for legal named entity recognition

H Darji, J Mitrović, M Granitzer - arxiv preprint arxiv:2303.05388, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
The use of BERT, one of the most popular language models, has led to improvements in
many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. One such task is Named Entity …

LegalLens: Leveraging LLMs for legal violation identification in unstructured text

D Bernsohn, G Semo, Y Vazana, G Hayat… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
In this study, we focus on two main tasks, the first for detecting legal violations within
unstructured textual data, and the second for associating these violations with potentially …