A BERT-Based Model for Legal Document Proofreading

Legal documents require high precision and accuracy in language use, leaving no room for grammatical and spelling errors. To address the issue, this paper proposes a novel application of the BERT pre-trained language model for legal document proofreading. The BERT-based model is trained to detect and correct legal texts’ grammatical and spelling errors. On a dataset of annotated legal documents, we experimentally show that our BERT-based model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art proofreading models in precision, recall, and F1 score, showing its potential as a valuable tool in legal document preparation and revision processes. The application of such advanced deep learning techniques could revolutionise the field of legal document proofreading, enhancing accuracy and efficiency.