Language Logic Law Software

I and my colleagues have a paper forthcoming in Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (S. Montemagni, D. Tiscornia, and E. Francesconi, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2009. Below please find a link to the paper and an abstract.

Cheers,
Adam Wyner

Approaches to text mining arguments from legal cases

Adam Wyner
University College London

Rachel Mochales-Palau and Marie-Francine Moens
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

David Milward
Linguamatics, LTD.

Abstract
This paper describes recent approaches using text-mining to automatically profile and extract arguments from legal cases. We outline some of the background context and motivations. We then turn to consider issues related to the construction and composition of a corpora of legal cases. We show how a Context-Free Grammar can be used to extract arguments, and how ontologies and Natural Language Processing can identify complex information such as case factors and participant roles. Together the results bring us closer to automatic identification of legal arguments.

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