Legal Question Answering

Among the multiple applications that question answering systems have, there is one field of application that stands out notably from the rest: legal question answering. That is to say, the design and implementation of automatic systems that are capable of diving into large corpora of legal texts to provide correct answers to the questions of legal character that the users formulate to them.

The truth is that the legal field is very well suited to this type of system. In the first place, it is a field that is overwhelmed by the large amount of legal information that is generated daily. There is local, regional, national and even international information. This makes it almost impossible to keep up to date with all the new developments that are emerging every day.

For this and other reasons, the legal question answering systems are succeeding. In addition, it is expected that in the next few years, these systems will be improved and adopted by an even greater number of users. This will increase their popularity and provide solutions to real problems that both professionals and ordinary people may have in this field.