AI & Law: Natural Language Understanding And LexGLUE

New benchmark for Natural Language Understanding in the law

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The use of AI natural language systems has been popularized via Alexa and Siri
• On an overarching basis, these are called Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems
• A core subtopic or element within NLP is Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
• NLP and NLU have gradually been emerging in the legal domain, sensibly so
• A new benchmark dataset known as LexGLUE will help level the playing field

Introduction

Take a moment to think about the last time that you interacted with Alexa or Siri. If you’ve never had a dialogue with those systems, I’m wondering what cave you might be living in. Perhaps though you’ve interacted with other lesser-known interpretive systems and maybe didn’t even realize that you were doing so.

The advent of everyday use of AI-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems has become nearly routine…