TechTalk – AI-Assisted Community Legal Information Access

All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ben Kao, Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, HKU
Date: 20th February 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm

Mode: Mixed

About the TechTalk
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ben Kao, Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, HKU
Moderator: Professor Tao Yu, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, HKU
Date:  20th February 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Mode: Mixed (both face-to-face and online). Seats for on-site participants are limited. A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.
Language: English

In the contemporary era, legal information, encompassing court judgments and legislation, is generally accessible online in numerous countries. However, the online availability of this information does not necessarily equate to effective public access to legal knowledge. It presents significant challenges for individuals without legal expertise to acquire legal knowledge due to two primary reasons. Firstly, the online content predominantly consists of primary legal sources, such as cases and statutes, which are typically written in formal legal terminology that can be challenging for the general public to comprehend. Secondly, the public may lack knowledge of the applicable legal principles in their specific legal situations. Given the vast number of documents, it becomes arduous for users to identify the relevant legal sources when seeking solutions to their legal challenges. In this presentation, we will demonstrate several AI tools that we have integrated into our online legal information platforms, specifically HKLII and CLIC. We will elucidate how these tools facilitate enhanced public access to legal information.

Registration
Registration
  • The tech talk “AI-Assisted Community Legal Information Access” will be organized in the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two (G/F, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU) on 20th February 2025 (Thursday), 4:30pm.
  • Seats are limited. Zoom broadcast is available if the seating quota is full. 
  • Registrants on the waiting list will be notified of the arrangement after the registration deadline (with seating/free-standing/other arrangement)
Recording of the Tech Talk
About the speaker

Professor Ben Kao

Professor Ben Kao received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Hong Kong in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Princeton University in 1995. From 1992 to 1995, he was a research fellow at Stanford University. He is currently full professor in the School of Computing and Data Science (CDS) at The University of Hong Kong, associate head of The Innovation Academy, and chairperson of The Board of Studies of CDS. His research interests include database management systems, data mining, information retrieval systems, AI and natural language processing.

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