Natural Language Processing of Legal Texts

  by   Adam Wyner






Departments Computer Science, Zienkiewicz Institute for Modelling, Data and AI
DescriptionA range of text analytic approaches can be applied to legal texts, and the results can be highly useful to citizens, law firms, and the government. Legal text analysis is a fast growing area of research, development, and commercialization. In this project, you pick one or two text analytic approaches to apply to a corpus of legal texts (which can be provided, found, or created). The approach will be hybrid neuro-symbolic; that is, it is a blend of machine learning (e.g., Large Language Models) and rules (e.g., written in Prolog or another rule language). One can chose from amongst: * Search and information retrieval: storing and retrieving documents. * Summarisation. * Document clustering: grouping and categorising documents with respect to terms, phrases, paragraphs, or documents, using data clustering methods. * Document classification: grouping and categorising phrases, paragraphs, or documents, using supervised data mining classification methods. * Natural language processing: parsing and semantic representation. * Information extraction: identifying, extracting, and structuring entities, concepts, and relationships from unstructured text into structured data (e.g., a knowledge graph). * Sentiment. * Deriving a decision tree from text which can be used for interactive input and determinations (inference).
PreparationDepending on the specific project, there are a range of resources available.
Project Categories Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, January Cohort, Law, Modelling
Project Keywords Text Analysis


Level of Studies

Level 6 (Undergraduate Year 3) yes
Level 7 (Masters) yes
Level 8 (PhD) yes