Automated Document Assembly and Analytics
Traditionally, document creation and assembly were the bread and butter business of associates in big law firms. It is time-consuming and error-prone, if done manually. Document automation is a design of systems and workflows that assist in the creation and assembly of (legal) electronic documents, contracts and letters.
In short, document automation is targeted at replacing the manual creation of documents with template-based and highly standardized systems. Document automation might involve machine learning tools and NLP techniques. Also, logicbased systems use segments of pre-existing text and/or data to assemble a new document. Document automation will—like every application using machine learning—require very substantial additions and rewriting in the beginning. But the software will “learn” and improve over time, and will deliver better and better results. Advanced document automation systems allow users to create their own data and rules (logic).4.4