Natural Language Processing and Legal Tech

AI language technologies have a huge disruptive potential that could provide possibilities for advances in areas that have not yet been permeated by these technologies. The legal sector is a good example in this regard. Recent advances such as new transformers like BERT and GPT3 offer ample prospect for innovation. However, neither the requirements for adoption nor the ethical, legal, and social implications are sufficiently explored.

The project NLawP evaluates how AI technologies can impact the legal sector in disruptive ways. It will map current developments in research and in the legal tech market, inquire into how data governance can enable a responsible and efficient adoption, and bring stakeholders together in order to produce new ideas and innovations. NLawP will map state of the art applications and what we currently know about their implications concerning responsible AI. It will also look into the next steps concerning a sustainable data infrastructure for the legal sector. Furthermore, the project will inquire into potential innovations and imaginaries of stakeholders. A multi-perspective methodology will allow to research this emerging field of AI with a view to innovation, adoption, responsible uses, and infrastructures.