most citedSentence Embeddings and High-speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents

23 citations · 62 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL20232 cited

From Text to Structure: Using Large Language Models to Support the Development of Legal Expert Systems

Samyar Janatian, Hannes Westermann, Jinzhe Tan +2

Encoding legislative text in a formal representation is an important prerequisite to different tasks in the field of AI & Law. For example, rule-based expert systems focused on leg…

cs.CY20231 cited

JusticeBot: A Methodology for Building Augmented Intelligence Tools for Laypeople to Increase Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

Laypeople (i.e. individuals without legal training) may often have trouble resolving their legal problems. In this work, we present the JusticeBot methodology. This methodology can…

cs.CL202314 cited

LLMediator: GPT-4 Assisted Online Dispute Resolution

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef

In this article, we introduce LLMediator, an experimental platform designed to enhance online dispute resolution (ODR) by utilizing capabilities of state-of-the-art large language…

cs.CL202123 cited

Sentence Embeddings and High-speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker +2

Human-performed annotation of sentences in legal documents is an important prerequisite to many machine learning based systems supporting legal tasks. Typically, the annotation is…

cs.CL202118 cited

Lex Rosetta: Transfer of Predictive Models Across Languages, Jurisdictions, and Legal Domains

Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef +15

In this paper, we examine the use of multi-lingual sentence embeddings to transfer predictive models for functional segmentation of adjudicatory decisions across jurisdictions, leg…

cs.CL20214 cited

Cross-Domain Generalization and Knowledge Transfer in Transformers Trained on Legal Data

Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

We analyze the ability of pre-trained language models to transfer knowledge among datasets annotated with different type systems and to generalize beyond the domain and dataset the…