Looking for a little “Radar Love”? Here’s another site identified by the participants of last week’s Cowen Café – a legal AI use case radar!

The Legal AI Use Case Radar was created by an interdisciplinary research team working in Germany with a combined expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and common interest in Legal Technologies. Their goal was to provide a structured, unbiased, and up-to-date overview of the status quo in Legal AI, centered around the concrete use cases for such technology.

Their site consists of two major components: the Legal AI Use Case Radar and the Wiki. The Legal AI Use Case Radar (available here) visualizes multidimensional data, from Legal AI use cases, evaluation according to their four metrics, and mapping to NLP technology. You can hover over categories or items to see their related technologies and evaluation score in their four metrics, Legal Relevance, Academic Interest, ELSA Concerns, and Number of Experience Reports. The Wiki (available here) provides more information about each use case or technology, as well as find related literature and the complete evaluation results.

The Radar is divided into 8 categories, each with a variable number of sub-categories:

1. Compliance and Risk Management
2. Document Analysis and Management
3. Document Generation and Assistance
4. Information Processing and Extraction
5. Legal Decision Making and Dispute Resolution
6. Legal Information Retrieval and Support
7. Legal Research and Information Management
8. General-Purpose Legal Assistance

The Radar Legend (which is not Golden Earring, btw 😉 ) assess legal AI use cases across four metrics:

• Legal Relevance (least to most relevant)
• Academic Interest (least to most mature)
• Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects (ELSA) Concerns (least to most applicable)
• Number of Experience Reports (least to most reports)

To use the Radar, you can hover over a use case and/or category to see related lists expanding on both sides. Putting your cursor directly shows the score the team has given the use case for the currently displayed category. To change the category, click the Show drop down at the top of the form. Here’s an example of what the Radar looks like when the Legal Relevance category is selected:

Intriguing model, which I’m still analyzing to see what they really think about specific legal AI use cases. Regardless, whether “it’s a-half-past four and I’m shifting gear” or “the radio’s playing some forgotten song”, check out the Legal AI Use Case Radar for some Radar Love! 😀

So, what do you think? Do you think the Radar is a useful tool? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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