Chanika Ruchini

University of Moratuwa | UoM · Department of Computer Science and Engineering

When lawyers and legal officers are working on a new legal case, they are supposed have properly studied prior cases similar to the current case, as the prior cases can provide valuable information which can have a direct impact on the outcomes of the current court case. Therefore, developing methodologies which are capable of automatically extract...

Legal information retrieval holds a significant importance to lawyers and legal professionals. Its significance has grown as a result of the vast and rapidly increasing amount of legal documents available via electronic means. Legal documents, which can be considered flat file databases, contain information that can be used in a variety of ways, in...

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) has been prominent and ongoing research over many different domains, but it is not widely discussed in the legal domain. A number of publicly available datasets for a wide range of domains usually fulfill the needs of researchers to perform their studies in the field of ABSA. To the best of our knowledge, ther...

A document which elaborates opinions and arguments related to the previous court cases is known as a legal opinion text. Lawyers and legal officials have to spend considerable effort and time to obtain the required information manually from those documents when dealing with new legal cases. Hence, it provides much convenience to those individuals i...