Towards Meaningful Maps of Polish Case Law

In this work, we analyze the utility of two dimensional document maps for exploratory analysis of Polish case law. We start by comparing two methods of generating such visualizations. First is based on linear principal component analysis (PCA). Second makes use of the modern nonlinear t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding method (t-SNE). We apply both PCA and t-SNE to a corpus of judgments from different courts in Poland. It emerges that t-SNE provides better, more interpretable results than PCA. As a next test, we apply t-SNE to randomly selected sample of common court judgments corresponding to different keywords. We show that t-SNE, in this case, reveals hidden topical structure of the documents related to keyword,,pension". In conclusion, we find that the t-SNE method could be a promising tool to facilitate the exploitative analysis of legal texts, e.g., by complementing search or browse functionality in legal databases.

Application of Topic Models to Judgments from Public Procurement Domain

In this work, automatic analysis of themes contained in a large corpora of judgments from public procurement domain is performed. The employed technique is unsupervised latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In addition, it is proposed, to use LDA in conjunction with recently developed method of unsupervised keyword extraction. Such an approach improves the interpretability of the automatically obtained topics and allows for better computational performance. The described analysis illustrates a potential of the method in detecting recurring themes and discovering temporal trends in lodged contract appeals. These results may be in future applied to improve information retrieval from repositories of legal texts or as auxiliary material for legal analyses carried out by human experts.

Tagging Scientific Publications using Wikipedia and Natural Language Processing Tools. Comparison on the ArXiv Dataset

In this work, we compare two simple methods of tagging scientific publications with labels reflecting their content. As a first source of labels Wikipedia is employed, second label set is constructed from the noun phrases occurring in the analyzed corpus. We examine the statistical properties and the effectiveness of both approaches on the dataset consisting of abstracts from 0.7 million of scientific documents deposited in the ArXiv preprint collection. We believe that obtained tags can be later on applied as useful document features in various machine learning tasks (document similarity, clustering, topic modelling, etc.).

Unsupervised Keyword Extraction from Polish Legal Texts

In this work, we present an application of the recently proposed unsupervised keyword extraction algorithm RAKE to a corpus of Polish legal texts from the field of public procurement. RAKE is essentially a language and domain independent method. Its only language-specific input is a stoplist containing a set of non-content words. The performance of the method heavily depends on the choice of such a stoplist, which should be domain adopted. Therefore, we complement RAKE algorithm with an automatic approach to selecting non-content words, which is based on the statistical properties of term distribution.