LEGAL PROCESSES USING NATURAL LANGUAGE

PROCESSING

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

VYOMA MOHAN 312316205190

SWETHA S 312316205171

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

St.JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENNAI 600119

ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI 600 025

JULY 2019
 ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI 600 025

BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

Certified that this project report “AI SYSTEM TO ASSIST LEGAL

PROCESSES USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING” is the
bonafide work of VYOMA MOHAN (312316205190) and SWETHA S
(312316205171) who carried out the project work under my supervision, for the
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of
Technology in Information Technology.

SIGNATURE SIGNATURE

Dr. V. Muthulakshmi M.E., Ph.D., Ms. V. Linnet Princy Justina, M.E.,

Associate Professor Assistant Professor

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT- SUPERVISOR

LAB AFFAIRS

Department of Department of
Information Technology Information Technology
St.Joseph’s College of Engineering St.Joseph’s College of Engineering
Old Mamallapuram Road Old Mamallapuram Road
Chennai-600119 Chennai-600119

Submitted for the Viva -Voce held on

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 CERTIFICATE OF EVALUATION

College Name : St.Joseph’s College of Engineering

Branch & Semester : Information Technology (VII)

S.NO NAME OF THE TITLE OF THE NAME OF THE

STUDENTS PROJECT SUPERVISOR WITH

DESIGNATION

VYOMA MOHAN AI SYSTEM Ms. Anita Sounderajan,

1.
TO ASSIST Assistant Professor
(312316205190)
LEGAL
PROCESSES
SWETHA S
2.
USING
(312316205171)
NATURAL
LANGUAGE
PROCESSING

The report of the project work submitted by the above students in partial fulfillment
for the award of Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology of Anna
University were evaluated and confirmed to be reports of the work done by the above
students.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The contentment and elation that accompany the successful completion of

any work be incomplete without mentioning the people who made it possible.

We express our gratitude in thanking our Chairman

Dr. B.Babu Manoharan M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., our Managing Director
Mrs. B.Jessie Priya M.Com., our Director Mr.B.Shashi Sekar M.Sc., our
Principal Dr.Vaddi Seshagiri Rao M.E., M.B.A., Ph.D for having encouraged us
to do our under graduation in Information Technology in this esteemed college.

We express our sincere thanks and most heartfelt sense of gratitude to our
eminent Head of the Department-Lab Affairs Dr. V.Muthulakshmi M.E., Ph.D.,
for having extended her helping hand at all times.

It is with deep sense of gratitude that we acknowledge our indebtedness to

our supervisor Ms. Anita Sounderajan, qualif, a perfectionist for her expert
guidance and connoisseur suggestion.

Last but not the least, we thank our family members and friends who have
been the greatest source of support to us.

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 ABSTRACT

The objective is to build an expert system that enables the user, right from a

lawyer to a common person, who seeks to obtain professional legal information and

insight about a law-suit or a case or a legal document. The existing practice to do the

same is manual, where legal consultants have to go through the constitutional laws to

find relevant information regarding their case. The process can be computerised and

hence provide a quicker way to segregate those relevant fragments of law. The system

will also be able to decide the case is worth pursuing or not, which can be very

helpful to general public and may as well help the court discard some of the lost

causes. Thus, this system must be of great use, for the preliminary stages of law-suit

at the very least, by reducing the time consumed and making it more economical.

After analysing their problem, it can come to an efficient plan to achieve the user’s

cause. It can also suggest the legal advisors, specializing in the user’s requirements

and connect the seamlessly. The summarization tool, supplemented along with the

system, can analyse and propose a detailed report on the pros and cons, necessary pre-

cautions as well. This ensures that every person is aware of the nature of any

agreement before getting into it. The proposed system would familiarize our legal

laws and procedures to the public, and even popularize it, by aiding them with legal

assistance in the click of their fingers. This could drastically lower the effort and

expense they were to afford, to get the same legal support.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE NO

ABSTRACT
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ABBREVATIONS

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
1.2 SYSTEM OVERVIEW
1.3 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
1.3.1 Finding relevant laws
1.3.2 Help a person decide whether to pursue a
case or not
1.3.3 Summarization of legal documents and
contracts
2 LITERATURE SURVEY
3 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
3.1 EXISTING SYSTEM
3.1.1 Disadvantages of the existing system
3.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM
3.2.1 Advantages of proposed system
3.3 REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
3.3.1 Hardware specification
3.3.2 Software specification
3.4 LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
3.4.1 Python
3.4.1.1 Python frameworks/libraries used
3.4.2 React js
3.4.3 MongoDB
4 SYSTEM DESIGN
4.1 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
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 4.2 USE CASE DIAGRAM
4.3 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM
5 MODULE DESCRIPTION
5.1 MODULES
5.1.1 List relevant laws
5.1.2 Provide legal consultants
5.1.3 Summarize documents
5.1.4 Similar cases
6 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
6.1 CONCLUSION
6.2 FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
REFERENCES

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 LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO TITLE PAGE NO

4.1.1 ARCHITECTURE OF PROPOSED SYSTEM
4.2.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM
4.3.1 SEQUENCE DIAGRAM
5.1.1 RELEVANT LAWS FLOW DIAGRAM
5.1.2 DOCUMENT PROCESSING FLOW DIAGRAM
5.1.3 SIMILAR CASES FLOW DIADRAM

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 LIST OF ABBREVATIONS

ABBREVATION/ACRONYM DEFINITION

AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
API APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE
BOW BAG OF WORDS
BPO BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING
CM CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
DS DATA STRUCTURES
IDE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT
IE INFORMATON EXTRACTION
NER NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION
NLP NATIONAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
SME SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS

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