no code implementations • WS 2019 • Thomas Vacek, Ronald Teo, Dezhao Song, Timothy Nugent, Conner Cowling, Frank Schilder
Dockets contain a wealth of information for planning a litigation strategy, but the information is locked up in semi-structured text.
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Thomas Vacek, Dezhao Song, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Ronald Teo, Conner Cowling, Frank Schilder
In addition to a keyword search for judges, lawyers, law firms, parties and courts, we also implemented a question answering interface that offers targeted questions in order to get to the respective answers quicker.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2016 • Thomas Vacek
We propose to accelerate the rate of convergence of the pattern recognition task by directly minimizing the variance diameters of certain hypothesis spaces, which are critical quantities in fast-convergence results. We show that the variance diameters can be controlled by dividing hypothesis spaces into metric balls based on a new order metric.