Legal Question Answering

Legal question answering is the discipline that tries to design software solutions being able to correctly answers form the legal domain by means of computers. It is currently one of the hottest topic for research both in academia and industry. The reason is that there are a huge corpora of national and international laws that make the task of lawyers very difficult. However, the new solutions that are being proposed are able to reply difficult questions in a correct way in just a few seconds. Therefore, it is asumed the legal question answering will change the legal industry in a near future.