Legal research projects
Syntactic analysis software that extracts the ratio decidendi from a court case
Project description
There are several hundred court cases for the same civil codes. Sometimes these cases are very similar and end with very similar decisions. Lawyers often have to go through hundreds of similar court cases to find relevant information that will help them in their assessment. Our project automates this task by analyzing cases so that the most relevant details (ratio) can be identified that explain the reasoning behind a judge’s decision.
Challenge
Develop a simple application that extracts summary decisions from a judgment.
What we do
We extract and segment raw text, perform an analysis using regular terms, generate logical entities and key phrases, and train neural networks.
Examples of Amazon Web Services (AWS) involved in proof of concept.
Student:
- M. Dupuis
Technologies used:
- AWS Lamda and other services
This project is carried out using Amazon Web Services.