A list of selected resources, methods, and tools dedicated to Legal Text Analytics.

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• Selected Use Cases
• Methods
• Libraries
• Datasets and Data
• Annotation and Data Schemes
• Annotation Tools
• Research Groups and Labs
• Tutorials

• Credits

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• Optical Character Recognition (find more information here)
• Legal Document Pre-processing (find more information here)
• Clause Segmentation and Sentence Boundary Detection
• Information Extraction and Named Entity Recognition (find more information here)
• Legal Norm Classification
• Machine Translation
• Document Comparison and Semantic Matching
• Text Summarization
• Argument Mining
• Question Answering
• Legal Case Outcome Prediction
• Reference and Coreference Extraction
• Document Assembling and Generation
• Voice Transcription
• Anomaly Detection
• Data Anonymization

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• NLP Overview
• NLP Progress
• Text Visualizations
• Optical Character Recognition
• Rule-based methods for NLP, Apache Ruta, Jape Grammar
• Statistical NLP
• Machine Learning Frameworks
• Neural networks and deep learning for NLP Tutorial

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• Spacy - Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing
• Scikit - machine learning in python
• NLTK - Natural Language Toolkit
• Apache UIMA
• Gate - General Architecture for Text Engineering
• Transformers and re-trained embedding models including LegalBERT
• German Bert Model: Deepset AI
• Flair - SOTA NLP (incl. biomedical and legal data)
• Blackstone - Legal Named Entity Recognition and Text Categorizer
• Legal Reference Detection, Legal Reference Detection II
• Haystack - Transformers at scale for question answering & neural search

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• NLP Datasets
• OpenLegalData
• Legal Entity Recognition
• Legal Text Summarization
• Legal Text Translation
• Legal Document Classification
• Legal Sentence Classification (German)
• 100k German Court Decisions
• Legal Paper Datasets
• Awesome Legal Data
• Germany: Gesetze im Internet, Rechtsprechung im Internet, Verwaltungsvorschriften im Internet,Annotated German Court Decisions (Judgment style), German Federal Courts Dataset
• Switzerland: Swiss Legislation Corpus French and German
• German NLP Ressources: Awesome German NLP
• ECtHR: Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
• EU: European Union Law (eurlex R Package), Digital Corpus of the European Parliament (DCEP)
• Canada: Federal Laws and Regulations (ftp://205.193.86.89/)
• UK: UK Law Reports & Case Law Search
• USA: Caselaw Access Project
• USA: Supreme Court Database
• Israel: The Israeli Supreme Court Database
• United Nations: United Nations General Debate Corpus, United Nations Parallel Corpus
• International Law: Text of Trade Agreements (ToTA), Electronic Database on Investment Treaties (EDIT)
• Meta Search: Google Dataset Search
• Overview of Political Science Datasets: PolData

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• Annotation guidelines for Legal Entity Recognition (Germany)
• Semantic Types of Legal Norms

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• Awesome data annotation
• Prodigy
• Doccano
• Brat

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• Stanford University - CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
• Technical University of Munich
• Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession
• Suffolk Law School - Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab
• University of Ottawa - Legal Technology Lab
• University of Vienny - Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law
• University of Amsterdam - Leibniz Center for Law
• University of Helsinki - LegalTech Research Lab
• Hofstra University - Law, Logic & Technology Research Laboratory
• Computational Legal Studies

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• Monkey Learn - Text Analysis
• Using NLP to understand laws
• Document Representation for Legal Texts
• Data Science for Lawyers - Learning Resources
• Coding for Lawyers (discontinued)
• Custom NLP Approaches to Data Anonymization
• Information Extraction in legal documents

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