# Natural Language Processing in Legal Text Analysis

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**Author:** Alex Denne  
**Category:** Insights  
**Published:** 2024-12-18  
**Reading time:** 3 min

**Note:** This article is just one of 60+ sections from our full report titled: [The 2024 Legal AI Retrospective - Key Lessons from the Past Year](https://www.genieai.co/blog/legal-ai). Please download the full report to check any citations.

**Natural Language Processing in Legal Text Analysis**

Improvements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have enhanced legal text analysis:

AI-powered legal research can analyze huge collections of legal documents like case law, contracts, and statutes within minutes or seconds, abstracting pertinent information and learning patterns using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms.[28]

AI platforms utilize advanced natural language processing (NLP) to enhance legal research by enabling natural language queries and contextual understanding, providing highly relevant case law, statutes, and regulations quickly and accurately.[29]

We will cover NLP more broadly later.

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