AILaw-Lab

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

🔹 Co-organizing the Workshop JustNLP 🔹 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 🔹 InLegalBERT reaches 1.75 million downloads 🔹 Paper accepted at ACL 2024 🔹 Paper accepted in Artificial Intelligence and Law journal

AI for Smarter Law

At IIT Kharagpur, we combine the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to develop tools to assist Law practitioners and the common person with legal needs. From summarizing judgments and translating legal texts to rhetorical role labelling, statute identification and intelligent precedent search, our solutions make Law more accessible, efficient and transparent.

Our Expertise

Our mission is to bridge the gap between Law and Technology, making legal processes smarter, faster, accessible and more transparent.

Legal Document Summarization

Turning lengthy judgments and statutes into concise summaries

Legal Text Translation

Making legal language more understandable for the Indian population

Rhetorical Role Labelling

Identifying the semantic segments in a judgement for structured analysis

Statute Identification

Automatically detecting and linking relevant statutory provisions

Legal Question Answering

Generating accurate responses to legal queries

Case Law Retrieval

Intelligent and fast access to relevant precedents

Recent News

  • Co-organizing the Workshop JustNLP (Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice) with IJCNLP-AACL 2025. Please consider submitting your work. Workshop website - [Link]
  • Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main conference: IL-PCSR: Legal Corpus for Prior Case and Statute Retrieval.
  • Our Language Model pre-trained on Indian legal text InLegalBERT reaches 1.75 million downloads on Huggingface !!
  • Paper accepted at ACL 2024 Main conference: IL-TUR: Benchmark for Indian Legal Text Understanding and Reasoning.
  • Paper accepted in Artificial Intelligence and Law journal: Applicability of Large Language Models and Generative Models for Legal Case Judgement Summarization.