The National Court Administration under the Supreme Court said on the 9th that it is pushing to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "intelligent judgment search system" so that people lacking legal knowledge can easily find the rulings they want.
The "online judgment viewing" service is currently available on the Judicial Information Disclosure Portal, but it is difficult to find the desired ruling without entering exact keywords.
The National Court Administration is developing a system that uses AI to extract legal concepts from natural language queries. For example, if a user searches, "I have to move out of my jeonse apartment, but the landlord says there's no money," the system would extract legal concepts such as a lease contract from "jeonse apartment," termination of lease from "move," and nonfulfillment of the obligation to return the jeonse deposit from "the landlord says there's no money."
Currently, the online judgment viewing service provides a preview of part of the ruling (900–1,000 characters) before payment. The intelligent judgment search system could consider having AI summarize the ruling and provide it as a "preview." This could reduce cases where people obtain unnecessary rulings after seeing only part of a decision.
An official at the National Court Administration said, "We applied for this year's information strategy plan (ISP) budget to push the system," and noted, "If the budget is allocated, we can carry out next year's ISP project and, based on that, proceed with system development and related projects."