Inspiration
Clients often send requests filled with loads of unnecessary information but what lawyers really want is to get to the heart of the issue. This is what we aim to solve here. What is the legal issue for the case at hand?
What it does
Our software Classifile serves to categorize client's requests into specific legal issues, for example misrepresentation and mistake in contract law or murder and assault in criminal law. This is done with first, the use of a questionnaire, which helps to narrow down the possible legal issues. We also made use of a mapping algorithm to detect non-legal terms and recommend relevant legal issues.
How we built it
We utilised PHP and Python languages as well as natural language processing.
Challenges we ran into
To expand our mapping dictionary, we attempted to use a web crawler to identify specific verbs related to a specific legal issue, using court judgements as our database. However, the most frequently used words were not constructive for our program as they were very vague terms that could not point to any specific issue.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We had managed to develop the category function of our program!
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