Automatic Linking of Judgements to UK Supreme Court Hearings (2023.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | a number of legal documents are archived in the UK, including the Supreme Court's decisions and video recordings of court hearings. |
| Approach: | They propose to link segments in the text judgement to semantically relevant timespans in the videos of the hearings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool links segments in the text judgement to semantically relevant timespans in the videos of the hearings. |
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