Jusbrasil and Technological Challenges to Facilitate and Improve Access to Justice

• Edleno Silva de Moura UFAM
• Rafael Costa Jusbrasil
• Gabriel Jordão UFAM
• Gustavo Barreto Maia Jusbrasil

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/semish.2021.15824

Abstract

This article presents an introduction to some of the technological challenges faced by the company Jusbrasil in its mission to approximate the Brazilians to the justice. Jusbrasil seeks to combine law and technology so that justice crosses the borders of the courts and reaches the homes of any citizen. Millions of people access the company's platform nowadays, with access to more than 900,000 lawyers. On the other hand, our database has billions of documents containing artifacts related to law in Brazil. This scenario provides opportunities for the development of intelligent products, such as effective and efficient search systems, tools for structuring and processing information, data mining and recommendation systems, among others. In this work, we discuss and present to the academic community some of the technological challenges faced by the company.

Keywords: search, information retrieval, legal information retrieval

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