The Application of Natural Language Processing Technology in Legal Aid and Judicial Practice

Natural language processing (NLP) technology is an important constituent of artificial intelligence, focusing on the interaction between computers and human natural language, with the aim of enabling computers to understand, analyze, generate and process human languages. The fields of legal aid and judicial practice are also strongly related to texts, therefore, natural language processing technology has shown great potential in the legal field nowadays. In this study, the author reviews the development status, core technologies, application areas, and application value of natural language processing technology in the fields of legal aid and judicial practice. In addition, the study summarizes the difficulties and challenges faced by natural language processing technology in the field of legal aid and judicial practice. In particular, the current legal natural language processing technology still has technical problems, such as difficulty in processing complex and long legal texts, a lack of certain logical reasoning ability, insufficient understanding of non-professional questions, and a lack of public datasets, which leads to high model training costs, etc. In response to these problems, the study points out the need to make natural language processing models more adaptable to legal language, and proposes suggestions such as enhancing the popularity of models and open datasets.