Towards Semantic Role Labeling of Legal Documents for Improving NLP/IR Tasks in the Law Domain
Subinay Adhikary · 2023
Abstract The exponential growth of the number of legal documents online in digital format has posed unforeseen challenges for legal practitioners. Legal documents are often long, and complex, and handling them efficiently needs sophisticated technologies. A pivotal characteristic of a Common Law System is that it accords great importance to prior cases. The lack of familiarity with the law is another serious problem for the common man. In the scope of my doctoral thesis, my primary aim is to develop assistive tools and techniques for use by legal practitioners as well as by the common man. I plan to extract important events or fine-grained information and leverage these to expedite tasks such as finding pertinent prior case documents, summarising legal text, and so on. We strive to create methods that can assist the average person with legal questions, as well as increase public awareness of the law.