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From Research to Practice: Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a Real context

From Research to Practice: Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a Real context. By Dr. Atefeh Farzindar NLP Technologies INC. Montreal, Canada. Agenda. Presentation of NLP Technologies Partners Research and Development (R&D) NLP’s solutions Future R&D Questions.

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From Research to Practice: Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a Real context

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  1. From Research to Practice: Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a Real context By Dr. Atefeh Farzindar NLP Technologies INC. Montreal, Canada

  2. Agenda • Presentation of NLP Technologies • Partners • Research and Development (R&D) • NLP’s solutions • Future R&D • Questions

  3. NLP Technologies • To contribute to the improvement of justice thanks to the use of technologies • 200 000 judgments per year • Patent pending technologies

  4. Awards •  2005 NLP wins the grand prize of the 2005 edition of the prestigious Polytechnic and University of Montreal Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest. • 2006-2007received a research grant from the National Research Council Canada for the innovation. • 2007-2008 research grant from the PRECARN

  5. Research • Ph.D. from Sorbonne University and Ph.D. from University of Montreal • Supervised by Professor Mani of the MIT • Solutions based on 7 years of research and thesis of Dr. Farzindar

  6. Partners • National Research Council Canada • Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal • Industry Canada • Microsoft • Université de Montréal

  7. The Technology • Intelligent system for automatic synthesis and summarization of legal information • Multi agents system based on legal ontology and knowledge: • Detection of the thematic structure of a legal document • Identification of the quoted legislations Automatic summarization of legal texts

  8. ServiceExpress

  9. Advantage • Automatic synthesis and summarization • Search more effective • Provides high quality information • Saves time • Accessible via: • Email • On line service (NLP’s website)

  10. DecisionExpress • DecisionExpressis the weekly bulletin of new federal court decisions! • Provides overview of federal court activity for each week • Provides continuing education for all legal practitioners! • Be up to date in minutes!

  11. StatisticExpress • StatisticExpress provides legal intelligence! • An overview of the number of decisions published during the week, of the number of allowed and dismissed decisions and the number of decisions for every subject.

  12. SearchExpress • SearchExpress is the intelligent search engine! • Search by country • Search by judge • Search by result • Search by subject • Search by keyword

  13. BiblioExpress • BiblioExpress gives instant access to: • Legislations • Rules and regulations • Policy manuals • IRB guidelines • International instruments

  14. Future R&D • Extension of ServiceExpress: • Other legal practices, Tax, Intellectual property • Other courts • Machine translation

  15. Machine translation of legal text • The Federal Court and two official languages of Canada • Publication in two official languages • Translation • Issues • Takes up to several months for manual translations • Solution • Able to use automatically translated judgments and summaries • Once the official translations become available, the Court would replace machine translations by the official ones • Revision tools

  16. Conclusion • The first automatic summarization system developed specifically for legal documents • System implemented in a real-life environment • Produces summaries for large collections of judgments • Creating a practical tool to help legal practitioners

  17. Thank you Questions?

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