The Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop 2021 was held on November 10, 2021, co-located with the EMNLP 2021 conference. This workshop was organized by a committee comprising experts from various institutions, including the University of Sheffield, Athens University of Economics and Business, Bloomberg Law, Maastricht University, and Bloomberg. The event aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and law to discuss advancements and challenges in processing legal texts.
The workshop covered a range of topics pertinent to legal NLP, including multilingual analysis of online terms of service, named entity recognition in legal domains, legal judgment prediction benchmarks, and the development of datasets for legal language understanding. Sessions featured presentations on automated extraction of sentencing decisions, legal topic classification, and the creation of language models tailored for legal texts in various languages.
Notable speakers at the event included John Armour from Oxford Law, who discussed access to case law data in the UK, and Sylvie Delacroix from Birmingham Law and the Alan Turing Institute, who presented on data trusts as a bottom-up empowerment tool. The program also included multiple sessions for paper presentations, providing opportunities for attendees to engage with cutting-edge research and developments in the field.
The NLLP Workshop 2021 was particularly relevant for NLP researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners interested in the intersection of law and technology. Attendees had the opportunity to network with peers, discuss collaborative projects, and gain insights into the latest methodologies and applications of NLP in legal contexts.
Speakers(117)
Abhik Jana
Researcher at Universität Hamburg
Abhik Jana is a researcher at Universität Hamburg, specializing in natural language processing and legal text analysis.
Adam Meyers
Researcher at New York University
Adam Meyers is a researcher at New York University, specializing in legal text analysis and natural language processing.
Agnieszka Jablonowska
Researcher at European University Institute
Agnieszka Jablonowska is a researcher at the European University Institute, with a focus on consumer law and digital markets.
Alasdair Gray
Researcher at Heriot-Watt University
Alasdair Gray is a researcher at Heriot-Watt University, specializing in information extraction from regulatory texts.
Alexandru Ianov
Researcher at Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
Alexandru Ianov is a researcher at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Ana Sabina Uban
Researcher at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, University of Bucharest
Ana Sabina Uban is a researcher at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and University of Bucharest, focusing on legal text analysis.
Andrea Galassi
Researcher at University of Bologna
Andrea Galassi is a researcher at the University of Bologna, specializing in natural language processing and its applications in the legal domain.
Andrew Christie
Professor at The University of Melbourne
Andrew Christie is a Professor at The University of Melbourne, focusing on intellectual property law and legal informatics.
Anna Rogers
Researcher at Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen
Anna Rogers is a researcher at the Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, specializing in responsible data use in NLP.
Anna Székely
Researcher at Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
Anna Székely is a researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, focusing on legislative studies and text reuse analysis.
Atul Kr. Ojha
Researcher at Data Science Institute, Unit for Linguistic Data, National University of Ireland Galway
Atul Kr. Ojha is a researcher at the Data Science Institute, Unit for Linguistic Data, National University of Ireland Galway, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Bert Staub
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Bert Staub is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Bimal Kumar
Researcher at Northumbria University
Bimal Kumar is a researcher at Northumbria University, focusing on information extraction from regulatory texts.
Brayden Merrifield
Researcher at Justice Connect
Brayden Merrifield is a researcher at Justice Connect, focusing on legal informatics and machine learning.
Carmit Chalamish
Researcher at The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, Bar-Ilan University
Carmit Chalamish is a researcher at The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel and Bar-Ilan University, specializing in legal informatics.
Carol Luca Gasan
Researcher at Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
Carol Luca Gasan is a researcher at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Chad Morris
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Chad Morris is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, specializing in legal text analysis.
Christopher Manning
Professor at Stanford University
Christopher Manning is a Professor at Stanford University, focusing on natural language processing and computational linguistics.
Christos Papaloukas
Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Christos Papaloukas is a researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in legal topic classification.
Clara Egger
Researcher at University of Groningen
Clara Egger is a researcher at the University of Groningen, specializing in political science and legal text analysis.
Dan Simonson
Researcher at BlackBoiler Inc
Dan Simonson is a researcher at BlackBoiler Inc, focusing on supervised identification of participant slots in contracts.
Daniel Martin Katz
Professor at Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
Daniel Martin Katz is a Professor at Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, specializing in legal innovation and technology.
David Restrepo Amariles
Associate Professor at HEC Paris
David Restrepo Amariles is an Associate Professor at HEC Paris, specializing in law and artificial intelligence.
Derek Chong
Researcher at Stanford University
Derek Chong is a researcher at Stanford University, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Despina Pantazi
Researcher at Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Despina Pantazi is a researcher at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in legal text analysis.
Dhruv Sakalley
Researcher at Sensibill
Dhruv Sakalley is a researcher at Sensibill, focusing on legal text analysis and machine learning.
Dirk Hartung
Researcher at Bucerius Law School
Dirk Hartung is a researcher at Bucerius Law School, focusing on legal technology and data science.
Dirk Krechel
Researcher at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Dirk Krechel is a researcher at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Elliott Ash
Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
Elliott Ash is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, specializing in law and economics, and machine learning applications in legal texts.
Eugenie de Saint-Phalle
Researcher at University of Groningen
Eugenie de Saint-Phalle is a researcher at the University of Groningen, specializing in legal informatics and natural language processing.
Farhad Sadeghineko
Researcher at Northumbria University
Farhad Sadeghineko is a researcher at Northumbria University, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Fernando Trias
Researcher at Harvard University
Fernando Trias is a researcher at Harvard University, specializing in named entity recognition in historic legal text.
Florian Matthes
Professor at Technische Universität München
Florian Matthes is a Professor at Technische Universität München, specializing in legal informatics and machine learning.
Francesca Lagioia
Researcher at European University Institute
Francesca Lagioia is a researcher at the European University Institute, specializing in legal informatics and artificial intelligence applications in law.
Gabriel Stanovsky
Researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gabriel Stanovsky is a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in natural language processing and its applications in law.
Georgios Tziafas
Researcher at University of Groningen
Georgios Tziafas is a researcher at the University of Groningen, focusing on multilingual approaches to legal text classification.
Giacomo Tagiuri
Researcher at European University Institute
Giacomo Tagiuri is a researcher at the European University Institute, focusing on consumer law and digital markets.
Giovanni Sartor
Professor at European University Institute
Giovanni Sartor is a Professor at the European University Institute, with research interests in legal theory and artificial intelligence.
Hadi Abdine
Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique
Hadi Abdine is a researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, focusing on machine learning applications in law.
Hans Micklitz
Professor at European University Institute
Hans Micklitz is a Professor at the European University Institute, specializing in European economic law and consumer protection.
Hongming Wang
Researcher at Harvard University
Hongming Wang is a researcher at Harvard University, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Horia Velicu
Researcher at BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Horia Velicu is a researcher at BRD Groupe Societe Generale, focusing on legal informatics and machine learning.
Hyun Moon
Researcher at School of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Hyun Moon is a researcher at the School of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on machine learning applications in legal informatics.
Ilias Chalkidis
Researcher at University of Copenhagen
Ilias Chalkidis is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in legal natural language processing and dataset creation.
Inbar Levy
Researcher at The University of Melbourne
Inbar Levy is a researcher at The University of Melbourne, specializing in legal text analysis.
Ingo Glaser
Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Ingo Glaser is a researcher at the Technical University of Munich, specializing in summarization of German court rulings.
Ioannis Konstas
Researcher at Heriot-Watt University
Ioannis Konstas is a researcher at Heriot-Watt University, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Ion Androutsopoulos
Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business
Ion Androutsopoulos is a Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, focusing on natural language processing and its applications in law.
István Járay
Researcher at Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
István Járay is a researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, specializing in political science and legislative studies.
Janardhana Punuru
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Janardhana Punuru is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Jay Megaro
Researcher at FMR LLC
Jay Megaro is a researcher at FMR LLC, focusing on legal text analysis and machine learning.
Jenny Hong
Researcher at Stanford University
Jenny Hong is a researcher at Stanford University, specializing in learning from limited labels for long legal dialogue.
Jey Han Lau
Researcher at The University of Melbourne
Jey Han Lau is a researcher at The University of Melbourne, specializing in natural language processing applications in law.
Joel Niklaus
Researcher at University of Bern
Joel Niklaus is a researcher at the University of Bern, focusing on legal judgment prediction and multilingual legal benchmarks.
John Armour
Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University
John Armour is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has held visiting posts at various institutions and has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation, and corporate insolvency.
John Mariano
Researcher at FMR LLC
John Mariano is a researcher at FMR LLC, specializing in natural language processing applications in law.
John P. McCrae
Researcher at Insight Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway
John P. McCrae is a researcher at the Insight Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway, specializing in natural language processing and its applications in law.
Kasper Drazewski
Policy Officer at BEUC (The European Consumer Organisation)
Kasper Drazewski is a Policy Officer at BEUC, focusing on consumer rights and digital policy. He has contributed to research on multilingual analysis of online terms of service.
Kate Fazio
Researcher at Justice Connect
Kate Fazio is a researcher at Justice Connect, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Kobi Leins
Researcher at King’s College London
Kobi Leins is a researcher at King’s College London, specializing in the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.
Konstantinos Athinaios
Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Konstantinos Athinaios is a researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Lachlan Pham
Researcher at New York University
Lachlan Pham is a researcher at New York University, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Li Tang
Researcher at Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universitäten Zürich
Li Tang is a researcher at the Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universitäten Zürich, specializing in legal document retrieval at paragraph level.
Luyang Han
Researcher at ETH Zurich
Luyang Han is a researcher at ETH Zurich, specializing in machine learning applications in legal text analysis.
Malka Guillot
Researcher at University of Liège
Malka Guillot is a researcher at the University of Liège, focusing on legal text analysis and natural language processing.
Manolis Koubarakis
Professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Manolis Koubarakis is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on artificial intelligence and its applications in law.
Marco Lippi
Associate Professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Marco Lippi is an Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, focusing on machine learning and its applications in legal text analysis.
Marco Wrzalik
Researcher at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Marco Wrzalik is a researcher at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, specializing in legal information retrieval.
Maria Mitrofan
Researcher at Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
Maria Mitrofan is a researcher at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, specializing in named entity recognition in legal texts.
Marina Cidota
Researcher at University of Bucharest
Marina Cidota is a researcher at the University of Bucharest, specializing in natural language processing applications in law.
Marius Popescu
Researcher at University of Bucharest
Marius Popescu is a researcher at the University of Bucharest, focusing on machine learning applications in legal text analysis.
Matthias Stürmer
Researcher at University of Bern
Matthias Stürmer is a researcher at the University of Bern, focusing on open data and legal informatics.
Meladel Mistica
Researcher at The University of Queensland
Meladel Mistica is a researcher at The University of Queensland, focusing on semi-automatic triage of requests for free legal assistance.
Micha Elsner
Researcher at The Ohio State University
Micha Elsner is a researcher at The Ohio State University, specializing in natural language processing applications in law.
Michael Bommarito
Researcher at Stanford Law School
Michael Bommarito is a researcher at Stanford Law School, specializing in legal analytics and machine learning.
Michael Cole
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Michael Cole is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, focusing on legal question answering systems.
Michalis Vazirgiannis
Professor at Ecole Polytechnique
Michalis Vazirgiannis is a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, specializing in machine learning and data mining.
Mihai Masala
Researcher at University Politehnica of Bucharest
Mihai Masala is a researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, focusing on legal judgment prediction using machine learning.
Miklós Sebők
Researcher at Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
Miklós Sebők is a researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, specializing in political science and text analysis.
Mohr Wenger
Researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mohr Wenger is a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on automated extraction of sentencing decisions from court cases.
Moniba Keymanesh
Researcher at The Ohio State University
Moniba Keymanesh is a researcher at The Ohio State University, focusing on privacy policy question answering assistants.
Nhi Pham
Researcher at New York University
Nhi Pham is a researcher at New York University, specializing in legal terminology extraction.
Nikolaos Aletras
Lecturer at University of Sheffield
Nikolaos Aletras is a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, focusing on natural language processing and machine learning applications in law.
Noga Berger
Researcher at The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel
Noga Berger is a researcher at The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, focusing on legal text analysis.
Nut Limsopatham
Researcher at Microsoft AI+R
Nut Limsopatham is a researcher at Microsoft AI+R, specializing in leveraging BERT for legal document classification.
Ozan Tonguz
Researcher at Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Ozan Tonguz is a researcher at the Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in automating claim construction in patent applications.
Paolo Torroni
Professor at University of Bologna
Paolo Torroni is a Professor at the University of Bologna, specializing in artificial intelligence and its applications in law.
Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob
Researcher at University Politehnica of Bucharest
Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob is a researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Rajaa El Hamdani
Researcher at HEC Paris
Rajaa El Hamdani is a researcher at HEC Paris, focusing on legal informatics and natural language processing.
Rajdeep Sarkar
Researcher at Data Science Institute, NUI Galway
Rajdeep Sarkar is a researcher at the Data Science Institute, NUI Galway, focusing on few-shot and zero-shot approaches to legal text classification.
Renana Keydar
Researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Renana Keydar is a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on legal text analysis and natural language processing.
Richard Watson
Researcher at Northumbria University
Richard Watson is a researcher at Northumbria University, specializing in legal text analysis.
Robert Zev Mahari
Researcher at Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Law School
Robert Zev Mahari is a researcher at the Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Lab, and Harvard Law School, focusing on augmented legal reasoning through legal precedent prediction.
Ruben Kruiper
Researcher at Heriot-Watt University
Ruben Kruiper is a researcher at Heriot-Watt University, specializing in shallow parsing approaches for regulatory texts.
Sanjay Sharma
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Sanjay Sharma is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, focusing on machine learning applications in legal informatics.
Sebastian Moser
Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Moser is a researcher at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Simon Clematide
Researcher at Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universitäten Zürich
Simon Clematide is a researcher at the Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universitäten Zürich, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Soha Khazaeli
Researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Soha Khazaeli is a researcher at LexisNexis Legal & Professional, specializing in free format legal question answering systems.
Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Professor at The Ohio State University
Srinivasan Parthasarathy is a Professor at The Ohio State University, focusing on machine learning and data mining.
Stella Douka
Researcher at Ecole Polytechnique
Stella Douka is a researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, specializing in natural language processing and legal text analysis.
Stratos Idreos
Researcher at Harvard University
Stratos Idreos is a researcher at Harvard University, focusing on machine learning applications in legal informatics.
Sunny Chiu-Webster
Researcher at Facebook
Sunny Chiu-Webster is a researcher at Facebook, specializing in natural language processing and its applications in law.
Sylvain Jaume
Researcher at Harvard University
Sylvain Jaume is a researcher at Harvard University, specializing in legal text analysis.
Sylvie Delacroix
Professor of Law and Ethics at University of Birmingham
Sylvie Delacroix is Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and ethics, particularly in the context of data governance and artificial intelligence.
Tim Baldwin
Professor at The University of Melbourne
Tim Baldwin is a Professor at The University of Melbourne, focusing on natural language processing and computational linguistics.
Timothy Baldwin
Professor at The University of Melbourne
Timothy Baldwin is a Professor at The University of Melbourne, specializing in natural language processing and computational linguistics.
Tom Kalir
Researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tom Kalir is a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Tommaso Caselli
Researcher at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Tommaso Caselli is a researcher at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, focusing on natural language processing and its applications in law.
Traian Rebedea
Researcher at University Politehnica of Bucharest
Traian Rebedea is a researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, specializing in natural language processing in the legal domain.
Vall Herard
Researcher at FMR LLC
Vall Herard is a researcher at FMR LLC, focusing on legal informatics and machine learning.
Vasile Pais
Researcher at Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
Vasile Pais is a researcher at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, focusing on natural language processing in the legal domain.
Vlad Coneschi
Researcher at Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy
Vlad Coneschi is a researcher at the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, specializing in legal text analysis.
Wayan Vihikan
Researcher at The University of Melbourne
Wayan Vihikan is a researcher at The University of Melbourne, focusing on automatic resolution of domain name disputes.
Wietse de Vries
Researcher at University of Groningen
Wietse de Vries is a researcher at the University of Groningen, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Yimeng Gu
Researcher at Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Yimeng Gu is a researcher at the Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in legal text analysis.
Yiwei Qin
Researcher at Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Yiwei Qin is a researcher at the Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on natural language processing applications in law.
Yuta Koreeda
Researcher at Research & Development Group, Hitachi America Ltd.
Yuta Koreeda is a researcher at the Research & Development Group, Hitachi America Ltd., specializing in capturing logical structure of visually structured documents.
Event Details
- Date
- September 15, 2021
- Location
- 🇩🇴 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Virtual and in-person at EMNLP 2021
- Pricing
- Unknown
- Audience
- NLP researchers, legal scholars, practitioners