AI for Legal Problem Diagnosis in the Diverse Language of Australians

据估计，澳大利亚法律需求未得到满足的人数每年超过400万人，而且还在不断增长，而免费法律援助的资源严重不足。免费法律援助提供者的一个瓶颈是确定个人有什么（如果有的话）具体的法律需求，为此，本项目建议开发人工智能模型，使该过程半自动化，特别关注所有背景的用户的公平性，从少量精选数据中进行概括，以及与求助者的动态互动。该项目将有助于为澳大利亚社会中一些最脆弱的成员提供法律援助，并加强澳大利亚在法律人工智能领域的世界领先地位。

The number of Australians with unmet legal needs is estimated to be over four million people per year and growing, and free legal assistance is severely under-resourced. A bottleneck for free legal assistance providers is the determination of what (if any) specific legal needs the individual has, to which end this project proposes to develop AI models to semi-automate the process, with particular focus on fairness across users of all backgrounds, generalisation from small amounts of curated data, and dynamic interaction with the help-seeker. The project will help deliver legal assistance to some of the most vulnerable members of Australian society, and reinforce Australia's position as a world leader in AI for Law.