Many questions facing legal scholars and practitioners can be answered only by analysing and interrogating large collections of legal documents: statutes, treaties, judicial decisions and law review articles. I survey a range of novel techniques in machine learning and natural language processing – including topic modelling, word embeddings and transfer learning – that can be applied to the large-scale investigation of legal texts

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doi.org/10.5553/ELR.000191, hdl.handle.net/1765/137009
Erasmus Law Review
Erasmus Law Review
Erasmus School of Law

Dyevre, A. (2021). Text-mining for Lawyers:: How Machine Learning Techniques Can Advance our Understanding of Legal Discourse. Erasmus Law Review, 14(1), 7–23. doi:10.5553/ELR.000191