Technology,
Law Practice
Nov. 18, 2020
Legal sentiment analysis, opinion mining and AI
There is a palpable and ongoing tension underlying the role of sentiment in both the practice of law and throughout our courts. A longstanding premise is that adjudication should somehow be entirely dispassionate, objective, and bereft of undue passion or subjectivity, yet this seems to fly in the face of a process and effort that is innately human and intrinsically embodies human emotion. Efforts are stridently underway to apply artificial intelligence as a tool for detecting legal-embodied sentimentality.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
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