BERTopic for legal documents
NLP techniques can be applied to the large body of unstructured legal documents. One of the NLP applications is document grouping. Because legal documents can relate to each other in terms of topic of interest, topic modeling techniques can help legal professionals to search documents efficiently.
Background
Search engines in legal databases are transforming to advanced NLP techniques. This technology transformation will save legal professionals’ time and increase their productivity. Let’s see what the challenges are.
Questions
However, legal text processing is a challenging task because of legal-specific terminology. How to apply BERTopic modeling to tag the documents?
NLP solution
The authors of [9] applied BERTopic modeling to legal documents from the US case law dataset. They performed the standard BERTopic modeling procedure with plausible results.
Interpretability is a critical criterion for the results of a topic...