State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence applied to the Legal Domain

João Dias, Pedro A. Santos, Nuno Cordeiro, Ana Antunes, Bruno Martins, Jorge Baptista, Carlos Gonçalves

Abstract: While Artificial Intelligence applied to the legal domain is a topic with origins in the last century, recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are posed to revolutionize it. This work presents an overview and contextualizes the main advances on the field of Natural Language Processing and how these advances have been used to further the state of the art in legal text analysis.