Science
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Variations in Assessor Agreement in Due Diligence
We present a study of 9 lawyers conducting a simulated review of 50 contracts for five topics. We find that lawyers agree on the general location of relevant material at a higher rate than in other assessor agreement studies, but they do not entirely agree on the extent of the relevant material.
Read Article →Towards Protecting Sensitive Text with Differential Privacy
To avoid revealing confidential information, data owners and practitioners can use differential privacy, which provides a mathematically guaranteeable definition of privacy preservation.
The Utility of Context When Extracting Entities From Legal Documents
When reviewing documents for legal tasks such as Mergers and Acquisitions, granular information need to be identified and extracted. Inspired by previous work in Named Entity Recognition, we investigate how NER techniques can be leveraged to aid lawyers in this review process.