JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by aren » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 6:24 PM UTC

JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money
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Re: JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by harrykz » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

Hi! Harry from jEugene here. jEugene's mission is to help lawyers work more and stress less. We would love to hear any feedbacks you may have. Note that jEugene is currently looking for NLP engineers interested in the legal industry. :)

Re: JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by pointeroffact » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

perhaps i am missing something, but it looks like this just highlights two very common and easy to define types of error. how much practical value is there in this? Has this not been done before?

Re: JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by galen211 » Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 12:32 PM UTC

I gave the tool a try on a document I'm drafting for review by our lawyer. It's pretty interesting and I can definitely see it saving some time. I'm curious though, aren't there any word processing applications built specifically for lawyers that solve this problem? It always amazes me how poor the functionality of Word for legal documents is.

Re: JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by harrykz » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 4:26 PM UTC

galen211 wrote: post #4

I gave the tool a try on a document I'm drafting for review by our lawyer. It's pretty interesting and I can definitely see it saving some time. I'm curious though, aren't there any word processing applications built specifically for lawyers that solve this problem? It always amazes me how poor the functionality of Word for legal documents is.

Hi! There are word plugins, but they cannot perform more sophisticated checks that rely on robust but resource draining algorithms (mainly NLP techniques).

Re: JEugene (YC S15) Detects Errors in Legal Documents, Saving Time and Money

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Post by harrykz » Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 4:31 PM UTC

pointeroffact wrote: post #3

perhaps i am missing something, but it looks like this just highlights two very common and easy to define types of error. how much practical value is there in this? Has this not been done before?

Hi! We are beta-testing additional types of checks in consultation with our existing clients. The main challenge we face is controlling the urge to do too much for our users.