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Document Automation Tool Study is Published

We are happy to announce that our survey about document automation tools for the legal domain has been published.

The survey evaluates 13 document automation tools in accordance with requirements, which were identified with respect to the legal domain.

Please find the result of our survey here.

We would like to sincerely thank the 13 vendors who participated in our study and granted us access to their tools for conducting the study.

 

 


Article about joint research published by our industry partner Haufe Group

The sebis chair has been researching the utilization of artificial intelligence in order to improve legal research for several years. As a part of this effort, a joint research project with the Haufe Group has been established. In particular the semantic text matching problem as well as semantic search technologies were explored. More information about this research is also available here. Most recently, our industry partner was able to successfully transfer the gained knowledge and technologies into its own business. 

As a reuslt, Haufe Group published an interesting article about our project and findings. The article is available at https://www.buchreport.de/news/mit-kuenstlicher-intelligenz-zum-besseren-suchergebnis/.


Smart Contracts and Blockchain - a huge hype or an actual disruptive technology

On Thursday, January 24th, 2019, at 6:00 pm, the Seitz Weckbach Fackler & Partner law firm hosted an event organized by the Augsburg Law Society on Smart Contracts and Blockchain - a Huge hype or an actual disruptive technology? At the lecture evening, Prof Dr. Hans Grigoleit and Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes gave a talk on the diverse technical and legal implications of smart contracts and blockchain from the perspective of computer science on the one hand, and the lawyers perspective on the other.

The presentation slides of Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes talk are available here for download.


Two SEBIS Paper were nominated for LexisNexis Best Paper Award

Two papers of SEBIS were nominated for the LexisNexis Best Paper Award at IRIS 2018.

The first paper is about Named Entity Recognition, Extraction, and Linking in German Legal Documents and was written by Ingo Glaser, Benrhard Waltl and Florian Matthes. Please look here for furhter information about this paper.

The second paper from Daniel Braun, Elena Scepankova, Patrick Holl, and Florian Matthes is titled Customer-Centered LegalTech: Automated Analysis of Standard Form Contracts.


Paper on automated extraction of semantic information from german legal documents is nominated for LexisNexis Best Paper Award

Accepted for LexisNexis Best Paper Award

 

Abstract

Based on a collaborative data science environment, and a large document corpus (> 130.000 documents from German tax law) we demonstrate the extraction of semantic information. This paper shows the potential of rule-based text analysis to automatically extract semantic information, such as the year of dispute in cases. Additionally, it demonstrates the extraction of legal definitions in laws and the usage of terms in a defining context. Based on an iterative and interdisciplinary process, involving legal experts, software engineers, and data scientists, to evaluate and continuously refine the model used for the computer-supported extraction.