Artificial intelligence and legal analytics : new tools for law practice in the digital age / Kevin D. Ashley.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

1st edition

87750

Law -- Methodology -- Technological innovations.

Practice of law -- Technological innovations.

Electronic discovery (Law)

Legal research.

Artificial intelligence.

Technology and law.

Part I. Computational models of legal reasoning:

1. Introducing AI and law and its role in future legal practice

2. Modeling statutory reasoning

3. Modeling case-based legal reasoning

4. Models for predicting legal outcomes

5. Computational models of legal argument

Part II. Legal text analytics

6. Representing legal concepts in ontologies and type systems

7. Making legal informational retrieval smarter

8. Machine learning with legal texts

9. Extracting information from statutory and regulatory texts

10. Extracting argument-related information from legal case texts

Part III. Connecting computational reasoning models and legal texts

11. Conceptual legal information retrieval for cognitive computing

12. Cognitive computing legal apps.

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this book - designed to explain computational processes to non-programmers - describes how they will change the practice of law, specifically by connecting computational models of legal reasoning directly with legal text, generating arguments for and against particular outcomes, predicting outcomes and explaining these predictions with reasons that legal professionals will be able to evaluate for themselves. These legal applications will support conceptual legal information retrieval and allow cognitive computing, enabling a collaboration between humans and computers in which each does what it can do best. Anyone interested in how AI is changing the practice of law should read this illuminating work. Succinctly describes artificial intelligence (AI) and law advances in developing computational models of legal reasoning that can be integrated with text analytic techniques to achieve conceptual legal IR and cognitive computing. Focuses on high level but intuitive descriptions of computational processes and does not assume that readers are familiar with computer programming. Explains current legal technology, including e-discovery and legal information retrieval, how to measure the technology's effectiveness, the technology's limitations and how it will be improved given text analytics, and AI and law computational models. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781316622810

xxii, 426 p. ; 23 cm