Now computers become lawyers

European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law.

European law is complex, many layered and expanding. There are thousands of regulations, so many that compliance is difficult, time-consuming and expensive.
While harmonisation is underway, the process itself demands that individuals, companies and law firms often have to relearn the system.

Meanwhile, areas like intellectual property rights (IPR) and digital rights regulation that seek to combat piracy are becoming ever more complex to understand and apply consistently across Europe.

Now, the ALIS Project has developed a computerised platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI), game theory and semantic technologies to “understand” and track the regulations in a large, and expanding area of expertise — in this case IPR.
ALIS sought to develop a working system in IPR to tackle the fundamental technological challenges before expanding it to more areas later on. The system is much more than a simple database of relevant legal regulations.