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Mahesh Pendyala

Jacob Aaron Myers

Sanjay Sharma

Gene Osgood

Mark Shewhart

Janardhana R Punuru

Jeremy Jacob Mulder

Douglas N Ritter

Todd Joseph Frascone

Gordon Yip

Gaurav Mehra

A method includes receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, wherein the electronic document is a legal brief comprising a plurality of paragraphs; identifying one or more argument paragraphs from among the plurality of paragraphs, wherein each of the one or more argument paragraphs includes one or more legal arguments; performing a textual search of a corpus of legal documents based on a selected set of the identified argument paragraphs; performing a semantic search of the corpus of legal documents based on the selected set of the identified argument paragraphs; combining results of the textual search and the semantic search; and presenting the combined results to a user.

Methods and systems for performing legal brief analysis

Systems and methods to identify potential material fact sentences in electronic legal documents obtained from electronic repositories are disclosed. A system includes a processing device and a storage medium in communication with the processing device. The storage medium includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to obtain a document and parse text within the document to determine whether each paragraph in the document is a fact paragraph, a discussion paragraph, or an outcome paragraph based on at least one of a heading associated with the paragraph and features of the paragraph. The storage medium further includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to extract each sentence in the fact paragraph, direct a trained sentence classifier to determine whether each sentence is a potential material fact sentence or a non-material fact sentence based on features of the sentence, and identify potential material fact sentences.

Systems and methods for automatic identification of potential material facts in documents

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