After spending 14 years+ on the legal research/analysis/publishing/dockets and efiling side of #LegalTech, I will soon embark on an entirely (new to me) area. But, over the last year or so, I have been documenting some of my knowledge, should it be helpful to anyone:
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— Jennifer Marsh (@legalytical) August 29, 2022
How Neural Nets Are Liberating Legal Search from the Keyword Prison — from lawnext.com by Bob Ambrogi
Excerpt:
Why does this matter? Because in legal search, we should be able to search concepts and circumstances. We should be able to search for legal holdings or fact patterns even when the words do not square up.
That is the keyword prison in which we remain locked.
Well, your liberator is here, and she comes in the form of the neural network. It is technology that enables search queries to find highly relevant results, even when the results contain not even one of the search terms.
Not only do neural nets free search from the constraints of keywords, but they also humanize it, making search operations function more like our brains – thus the “neural” moniker.