In the current digital era, language technologies are playing an increasingly vital role in the legal domain, assisting users, lawyers, judges, and legal professionals to solve many real-world problems. While open datasets and innovative deep learning methodologies have led to recent breakthroughs in the area, significant efforts are still being made to transfer the theoretical/algorithmic developments, associated with general text and speech processing, into real applications in the legal-domain. This chapter presents a brief survey on language technologies for addressing legal tasks, covering studies and applications related to both text and speech processing.

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Natural language processing,Speech processing,Text mining,Text anonymization,Information retrieval,Summarization,Prediction of outcome

• Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
• Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering - Engineering and Technology