“Code is Law” – three famous words of Professor Lawrence Lessig back in 1999, when the Internet as the first important “cyberspace” emerged. This raised fundamental questions about how Code will impact our legal environment. Since then IT has further moved into our lives and now eventually reaches out to the legal profession. Major questions raised since then are still valid. Apart from fundamental questions how to effectively regulate Code, the legal profession needs to position itself: Shall we embrace IT, shall we avoid it, or just wait and see?
Corporate Legal, Head of Contracts & Projects
OMV Aktiengesellschaft
omv.com
After ten years of law firm experience with major Austrian law firms, Stefan joined OMV in 2006, where he was heading the legal department of the Gas & Power Division for five years. Since 2011, Stefan is heading the Contracts & Projects Department of OMV Aktiengesellschaft, which provides legal services to all divisions of OMV Aktiengesellschaft, i.e.
I will introduce the concept of 'Semantic AI', which is based on a fusion of NLP, machine learning (ML) and semantic knowledge graphs. We will take a look at two concrete use cases: How to improve ML-based classifiers for legal documents with semantic enrichment. How to combine various entity extraction methods, partly based on ML, to identify complex rules and restrictions from legal documents.
CEO / Co-founder of Semantic Web Company
Semantic Web Company
http://www.semantic-web.at/
Smart text mining is a critical and meanwhile established tool in the tool-box of modern law firms. Out of the box mining requires a lot of training of statistic AI algorithms. A semantic layer in law firms’ text mining approach could unlock a huge step forward but requires more work on the user interface. Here is a wish-list to the semantic AI community from a law firm’s perspective.
Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields
https://www.freshfields.com/
Bertram is a partner in the Global Transactions Group. He is based in Vienna and primarily provides legal advice in the area of media and telecoms law, outsourcing and data management, as well as on complex IT projects and respective corporate transactions.
