Legal Domain NLP

• Zhong et al 2020 - How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence
• Nice overview of resources here: Samy et al 2020 - Legal-ES: A Set of Large Scale Resources for Spanish Legal Text Processing
• Vogel et al 2017 - Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics: Corpus Analysis as a New Tool for Legal Studies

• Legal Document Classification
  • Nallapati & Manning 2008 - Legal Docket Classification: Where Machine Learning Stumbles
  • Limsopatham 2021 - Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification
• Legal Assistance Systems
  • Wang et al 2019 - IFlyLegal: A Chinese Legal System for Consultation, Law Searching, and Document Analysis
• Question Answering
  • Khazaeli et al 2021 - A Free Format Legal Question Answering System
• Summarization
  • Farzindar & Lapalme 2004|Legal Text Summarization by Exploration of the Thematic Structure and Argumentative Roles
• Information Extraction on Legal Documents
  • Shen et al 2020 - Hierarchical Chinese Legal Event Extraction via Pedal Attention Mechanism
• Pre-processing and Pre-training
  • Chalkidis et al 2020 - LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School
  • Sanchez 2019 - Sentence Boundary Detection in Legal Text
• Legal Judgement and/or Charge Prediction
  • Hu et al 2018 - Few-Shot Charge Prediction with Discriminative Legal Attributes
  • Chalkidis et al 2019 - Neural Legal Judgment Prediction in English
• Legal Analysis
  • Zufall et al 2019 - From Legal to Technical Concept: Towards An Automated Classification of German Political Twitter Postings as Criminal Offenses Automatically determines which Twitter posts may be deemed offenses under German law by leveraging the deductive approach of Roman law (the law system Germany uses).
  • Koreeda & Manning 2021 - ContractNLI: A Dataset for Document-level Natural Language Inference for Contracts
• Ethics
  • Tsarapatsanis & Aletras 2021 - On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text
• Legal Expert
  • Kim et al 2024 - SELF-EXPERTISE: Knowledge-based Instruction Dataset Augmentation for a Legal Expert Language Model

See also NLLP 2020 - Datasets.

• American Law Corpus (ALC): 5.5M words
• The British Law Report Corpus (BLaRC): 8.5M words
• Corpus of European Law: 1M words, En and De
• Samy et al 2020 - Legal-ES: A Set of Large Scale Resources for Spanish Legal Text Processing

• Gov2Vec
• LEGAL-BERT paper
• Legal-ES paper

See also NLLP 2020 - Related Workshops

• Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP): 2019 2020, Proceedings: 2019 2021

• Patent Domain NLP