AI in law: language model can speed up the work of lawyers

The use of AI models can help legal practitioners understand complex legal texts. Julien Rossi, Amsterdam Business School researcher, is trying to find out how such a solution might work. He does this by means of Natural Language Processing. 'What makes this challenging is that existing models are not trained on complex legal texts. Considerable research has been done on the Natural Language Processing (NLP) of generic texts such as blogs and works of literature. NLP is a form of AI whereby algorithms understand text and spoken words. NLP is not entirely suitable for legal texts like contracts, because the models have simply not been optimised for this purpose, at least not yet.