AILaw-Lab

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Recent News

2025
  • Dr. Pawan Goyal becomes a full Professor at the Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
  • Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence & Law journal on Applications and Evaluation of Large Language Models in the Legal Domain, co-edited by Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh, is now published online at Link
  • The AAAI 2022 paper LeSICiN: A Heterogeneous Graph-Based Approach for Automatic Legal Statute Identification from Indian Legal Documents wins the Markose Thomas Memorial Award for being one of the two best research papers published from the Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur during 2022-23. The paper can be accessed here. Congratulations Shounak, Pawan, Saptarshi !!
  • Welcome to new members joining the group: Trishita Saha (Project engineer), Raghav Dogra (Project engineer), Shubham Tiwari (Law domain expert).
  • Project Large Language Models for Legal Assistance sanctioned for funding by IIT Mandi iHUB and HCi Foundation. Thanks for the support !!
  • Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main conference: PCSR: Legal Corpus for Prior Case and Statute Retrieval.
  • Dr. Pawan Goyal, Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh, Shounak Paul, Debtanu Datta are co-organizing the Workshop JustNLP (Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice) with IJCNLP-AACL 2025. Please consider submitting your work !!
  • Paper accepted at ASONAM 2025: Justice for the Disadvantaged: A Study of Public Reactions on Indian Supreme Court Judgments.
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh speaks on NLP for the legal domain during his visits to multiple institutes in Europe: HEC Paris; Ruhr University, Bochum ; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn ; Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern (June 2025).
  • Our Language Model pre-trained on Indian legal text InLegalBERT reaches 1.75 million downloads on Huggingface !!
  • Paper accepted at Artificial Intelligence and Law journal: MARRO: Multi-headed Attention for Rhetorical Role Labeling in Legal Documents.
2024
  • 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.
  • Paper accepted at SIGIR 2024 (Resource & Reproducibility track): Legal Statute Identification: A Case Study using State-of-the-Art Datasets and Methods.
  • Project NyayKosh: Multilingual Resources for AI-based Legal Analytics sanctioned for funding by AI4ICPS Hub Foundation, IIT Kharagpur. Thanks for the support !!
  • Paper accepted at NAACL 2024: Beyond Borders: Investigating Cross-Jurisdiction Transfer in Legal Case Summarization.
  • Paper accepted in the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal: Ensemble methods for improving extractive summarization of legal case judgements (with Aniket Deroy and Kripabandhu Ghosh).
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh is co-editing a Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence & Law journal on Applications and Evaluation of Large Language Models in the Legal Domain.
2023
  • Paper accepted at EMNLP 2023: MILDSum: A Novel Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Summarization of Indian Legal Case Judgments (with Debtanu Datta, Shubham Soni, Rajdeep Mukherjee).
  • Paper accepted at ICDAR 2023: TransDocAnalyser: A framework for semi-structured offline handwritten documents analysis with an application to legal domain (with Sagar Chakraborty, Gaurav Harit).
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh is honoured to be invited to speak on Legal NLP at the Symposium on NLP for Social Goodat University of Liverpool (June 2023).
  • Paper accepted at ICAIL 2023 : Pre-trained Language Models for the Legal Domain: A Case Study on Indian Law (with Shounak Paul, Arpan Mandal, Pawan Goyal). Presents the first Transformer-based Language Models pre-trained on Indian legal text -- InLegalBERT InCaseLawBERT CustomInLawBERT an important resource for advancement of Legal NLP in India.
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh organized the 3rd Symposium on AI and Law (SAIL2023) during February 24--26, 2023 as a hybrid event at IIIT Hyderabad. [Website Link]
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh delivered a tutorial on the application of AI in the legal domain at CODS-COMAD 2023, along with Jack Conrad, (Director and Lead Research Scientist), Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri (Director of Engineering) from Thomson Reuters, and Shounak Paul (PhD student) [Resource Page]
2022
  • Paper accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2022: Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation. Congratulations Abhay, Paheli, Soham, Rajdeep !!
  • Congratulations to Paheli for defending her PhD at IIT Kharagpur!! Thesis title: Text and Graph Processing Methods for Assisting Legal Practitioners.
  • Paper accepted at the Information Processing and Management journal: Legal Case Document Similarity: You Need Both Network and Text. Congratulations Paheli !!
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh and Shounak Paul presented our works on Law-AI to a global Thomson Reuters audience, as part of AI@TR Invited Speaker Series. Thanks Jack Conrad for the invite !!
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh is honoured to be appointed a Section Editor (on Legal Information Retrieval) for the prestigious Artificial Intelligence and Law journal.
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh co-organized the 2nd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL 2022)including talks by 8 eminent Law/AI researchers. Recordings available on YouTube.
  • Congratulations Arpan for defending his PhD at IIEST Shibpur (co-supervised with Prof. Sekhar Mandal)!! Thesis title: Catchphrases in Legal Case Documents: Identification and Applications.
  • Paper accepted in AAAI 2022: LeSICiN: A Heterogeneous Graph-based Approach for Automatic Legal Statute Identification from Indian Legal Documents. Congratulations Shounak !!
2021
  • Paper accepted in Artificial Intelligence and Law journal: Deep Learning for Rhetorical Role Labeling of Sentences in Legal Case Documents. Congratulations Paheli, Shounak !!
  • Our paper Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents awarded Donald Berman Award for Best Student Paper at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2021. Congratulations Paheli, Soham !!
  • Paper accepted in Artificial Intelligence and Law journal: A Sequence Labeling Model for Catchphrase Identification from Legal Case Documents. Congratulations Arpan !!
  • Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh co-organized the online Symposium on AI and Law (SAIL-2021) during May 31 - June 04, 2021. 5 days of exciting talks and panel discussions involving leading Law-AI researchers !!
  • Paper accepted in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2021: Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents. Congratulations Paheli and Soham !!
  • Paper accepted in JURIX 2021: An Analytical Study of Algorithmic and Expert Summaries of Legal Cases. Congratulations Aniket, Paheli !!
2020
  • Paper accepted at International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2020: Automatic Charge Identification from Facts: A Few Sentence-Level Charge Annotations is All You Need.
  • Paper accepted at ACM SIGIR 2020: Hier-SPCNet: A Legal Statute Hierarchy-based Heterogeneous Network for Computing Legal Document Similarity.
2019
  • Our paper Identification of Rhetorical Roles of Sentences in Indian Legal Judgments awarded the JURIX 2019 Best Paper Award. Congratulations to Paheli, Shounak, Kripabandhu and Adam!! Media coverage: The Economic Times Hindustan Times India Today