Legal Technology Research
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A Legal Technology Research is a domain-specific research that investigates computational methods and systems for legal document processing and analysis.
- AKA: Legal Tech Research, Computational Law Research, Law and Technology Studies.
- Context:
- It can typically investigate natural language processing techniques for legal text understanding.
- It can typically evaluate machine learning models on legal benchmark datasets.
- It can often develop contract analysis algorithms for automated review systems.
- It can often create legal knowledge representations for reasoning systems.
- It can range from being Theoretical Legal Technology Research to being Applied Legal Technology Research, depending on its research focus.
- It can range from being Single-Task Legal Technology Research to being Multi-Task Legal Technology Research, depending on its problem scope.
- It can range from being Academic Legal Technology Research to being Industrial Legal Technology Research, depending on its research setting.
- It can range from being Exploratory Legal Technology Research to being Evaluative Legal Technology Research, depending on its research methodology.
- It can utilize Material Contracts Corpus for empirical study.
- It can produce Contract Metadata Extraction Systems as research output.
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- Examples:
- Dataset Creation Research, such as:
- LEDGAR Dataset Development for provision classification.
- Material Contracts Corpus Construction at Stanford Law.
- Algorithm Development Research, such as:
- Contract Clause Classification Models using transformers.
- Legal Named Entity Recognition systems.
- Application Research, such as:
- Due Diligence Automation Studys for M&A.
- Regulatory Compliance Detection research.
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- Dataset Creation Research, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Traditional Legal Research, which uses manual rather than computational methods.
- General NLP Research, which lacks legal domain specialization.
- Legal Practice, which applies rather than researches technology.
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- See: Material Contracts Corpus, LEDGAR Dataset, Contract Metadata Extraction System, Natural Language Processing Research, Machine Learning Research, Legal Information Retrieval, Computational Law, Digital Humanities Research.