From Research to Practice: Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a Real context By Dr. Atefeh Farzindar NLP Technologies INC. Montreal, Canada

Agenda Presentation of NLP Technologies Partners Research and Development (R&D) NLP’s solutions Future R&D Questions

NLP Technologies To contribute to the improvement of justice thanks to the use of technologies judgments per year Patent pending technologies

Awards 2005 NLP wins the grand prize of the 2005 edition of the prestigious Polytechnic and University of Montreal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest received a research grant from the National Research Council Canada for the innovation research grant from the PRECARN

Research Ph.D. from Sorbonne University and Ph.D. from University of Montreal – Supervised by Professor Mani of the MIT Solutions based on 7 years of research and thesis of Dr. Farzindar

Partners National Research Council Canada Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal Industry Canada Microsoft Université de Montréal

The Technology Intelligent system for automatic synthesis and summarization of legal information Multi agents system based on legal ontology and knowledge: Detection of the thematic structure of a legal document Identification of the quoted legislations Automatic summarization of legal texts

ServiceExpress

Advantage Automatic synthesis and summarization Search more effective Provides high quality information Saves time Accessible via: – – On line service (NLP’s website)

DecisionExpress DecisionExpress is the weekly bulletin of new federal court decisions! DecisionExpress Provides overview of federal court activity for each week Provides continuing education for all legal practitioners! Be up to date in minutes!

StatisticExpress StatisticExpress provides legal intelligence! StatisticExpress An overview of the number of decisions published during the week, of the number of allowed and dismissed decisions and the number of decisions for every subject.

SearchExpress SearchExpress is the intelligent search engine! SearchExpress Search by country Search by judge Search by result Search by subject Search by keyword

BiblioExpress BiblioExpress gives instant access to: BiblioExpress Legislations Rules and regulations Policy manuals IRB guidelines International instruments

Future R&D Extension of ServiceExpress: – Other legal practices, Tax, Intellectual property – Other courts Machine translation

Machine translation of legal text The Federal Court and two official languages of Canada Publication in two official languages Translation – Issues Takes up to several months for manual translations – Solution Able to use automatically translated judgments and summaries Once the official translations become available, the Court would replace machine translations by the official ones Revision tools

Conclusion The first automatic summarization system developed specifically for legal documents System implemented in a real-life environment Produces summaries for large collections of judgments Creating a practical tool to help legal practitioners

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