Dr. Amelia Taylor

Dr. Amelia Taylor

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Computing & Information Technology

19 publications

Amelia Taylor is a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, former the University of Malawi, the Polytechnic. She teaches Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and programming modules. In addition, she teaches and supervises MSc and...

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Towards a machine understanding of Malawi legal text

Journal Article
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Dr. Amelia Taylor
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Dr. Amelia Taylor
Abstract
Legal professionals in Malawi rely on a limited number of textbooks, outdated law reports and inadequate library services. Most documents available are in image form, are un-structured, i.e. contain no useful legal meta-data, summaries, keynotes, and do not support a system of citation that is essential to legal research. While advances in document processing and machine learning have benefited many fields, legal research is still only marginally affected. In this interdisciplinary research, the authors build semi-automatic tools for creating a corpus of Malawi criminal law decisions annotated with legal meta-data, case and law citations. We used this corpus to extract legal meta-data, including law and case citations as used in Malawi by employing machine learning tools, spaCy and Gensim LDA. We set the foundation for a new methodology for classifying Malawi criminal case law according to the recently introduced International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS).
Year of Publication
2021
Journal Name
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Volume
29
Issue
3
Page Numbers
1
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