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

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

3. NLP Technologies To contribute to the improvement of justice thanks to the use of technologies 200 000 judgments per year Patent pending technologies

4. Awards 2005 NLP wins the grand prize of the 2005 edition of the prestigious Polytechnic and University of Montreal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest. 2006-2007 received a research grant from the National Research Council Canada for the innovation. 2007-2008 research grant from the PRECARN

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. ServiceExpress

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

10. 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!

13. 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.

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

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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Thank you Questions?