Mar 4, 2020
We are happy to announce that our survey about document automation tools for the legal domain has been published.
The survey evaluates 13 document automation tools in accordance with requirements, which were identified with respect to the legal domain.
Please find the result of our survey here.
We would like to sincerely thank the 13 vendors who participated in our study and granted us access to their tools for conducting the study.
May 15, 2019
The sebis chair has been researching the utilization of artificial intelligence in order to improve legal research for several years. As a part of this effort, a joint research project with the Haufe Group has been established. In particular the semantic text matching problem as well as semantic search technologies were explored. More information about this research is also available here. Most recently, our industry partner was able to successfully transfer the gained knowledge and technologies into its own business.
As a reuslt, Haufe Group published an interesting article about our project and findings. The article is available at https://www.buchreport.de/news/mit-kuenstlicher-intelligenz-zum-besseren-suchergebnis/.
Jan 28, 2019
On Thursday, January 24th, 2019, at 6:00 pm, the Seitz Weckbach Fackler & Partner law firm hosted an event organized by the Augsburg Law Society on Smart Contracts and Blockchain - a Huge hype or an actual disruptive technology? At the lecture evening, Prof Dr. Hans Grigoleit and Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes gave a talk on the diverse technical and legal implications of smart contracts and blockchain from the perspective of computer science on the one hand, and the lawyers perspective on the other.
The presentation slides of Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes talk are available here for download.
Feb 25, 2018
Two papers of SEBIS were nominated for the LexisNexis Best Paper Award at IRIS 2018.
The first paper is about Named Entity Recognition, Extraction, and Linking in German Legal Documents and was written by Ingo Glaser, Benrhard Waltl and Florian Matthes. Please look here for furhter information about this paper.
The second paper from Daniel Braun, Elena Scepankova, Patrick Holl, and Florian Matthes is titled Customer-Centered LegalTech: Automated Analysis of Standard Form Contracts.
Feb 22, 2017