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TEMIS Expands Canadian Business by Signing with CAIJ, Quebec Leading Legal Information Access Centre

Published July 17, 2012 Success Story Leave a Comment
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CAIJ chooses Luxid® as Content Enrichment Platform to improve access to legal information through its JuriBistroTM search tools Suite


Montreal, Canada – July 17, 2012 – TEMIS, leading international provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, today announced it has signed a major license and services agreement with CAIJ, Quebec legal information access center.

Created in 2001 and one of the largest data providers of its kind in North America, CAIJ supplies members of Quebec’s Bar and Judiciary fast and efficient online access to legal information, saving time, effort and fees associated with legal research.

The largest legal information provider in Quebec, CAIJ serves 25,000 members and runs a network of 39 law libraries located in courts throughout the province. CAIJ also provides a range of online search tools – the JuriBistroTM Suite – for instantaneous access to more than one million digital resources in legislation, case law and legal literature.

In order to make its search solutions more effective and relevant for its professional user base, CAIJ has chosen to embed Luxid®, TEMIS semantic content enrichment platform, at the core of its information system.

Leveraging TEMIS’ Text Mining 360° Skill Cartridge® which automatically identifies named entities (people, locations, numbers, organizations, etc.) in a document, Luxid® Platform extracts numerical data from cases, making them available to users through CAIJ’s new search tool: JuriBistroTM eQuantum.

Judges, attorneys and other legal professionals using JuriBistroTM eQuantum can research, filter and navigate within search results according to relevant domain-specific criteria. JuriBistroTM eQuantum is a strategic legal decision-making tool used to discover a variety of relevant facts in a case, such as ages of people involved, financial compensation, years of marriage, years sentenced for a crime, etc.

“With TEMIS software, CAIJ will greatly increase the quality of service to our members”, said Richard Boivin, Executive Director of CAIJ. “Because of its experience in the legal domain, TEMIS will guide us into the world of knowledge management.”

“CAIJ ambitious plan will benefit from our renowned experience in information extraction for legal publishers”, adds Vincent Nibart, Sales Director, TEMIS Canada. “This new reference account confirms our technological advantage in terms of semantic enrichment of legal content as well as our commitment to the Canadian market.”

About CAIJ
CAIJ is a network of 39 libraries serving members of the Bar and Judiciary of Quebec. CAIJ offers research and training services as well as a range of research tools accessible online through JuriBistroTM search tools Suite. CAIJ mission is to “make legal information available, with priority given to members of the Bar and Judiciary of Quebec, and to ensure that access is the same regardless of geographical location or work environment”. Every day, CAIJ strives to reduce the time, effort and cost of accessing legal information.
http://www.caij.qc.ca/

> French version

TEMIS Engages Canadian Publishing Market, Provides Semantic Content Enrichment Solution to SOQUIJ

Published April 2, 2012 Success Story Leave a Comment
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Quebec legal publisher SOQUIJ acquires Luxid® platform to modernize editorial process, improve quality of content and streamline access to case law.

Montreal, Canada – April 2nd, 2012 – TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced it has signed a major license and services agreement with SOQUIJ, a legal publisher attached to the Quebec Ministry of Justice.

Created in 1976, SOQUIJ’s mission is to:

  • collect, analyze, distribute, and publish legal information originating from Quebec courts and other bodies,
  • present this information in the most complete and up-to-date form possible, while ensuring optimal organization and ease of access,
  • offer unrivalled expertise, user-friendly tools, exhaustive content, and excellent customer service to legal professionals.

In order to enhance access and the navigation experience for its users, while processing an increasing number of court decisions, SOQUIJ wanted to revamp its content management workflow. Its main objectives were to:

  • automate the hyper-linking and cross-referencing of jurisprudence, legislation, laws or bodies of laws, and legal doctrines,
  • automatically feed legal knowledge bases,
  • create an open and scalable extraction system, based on easy-to-maintain and reusable components while simultaneously offering a development environment,
  • process its legacy content to enrich it with hyperlinks, 
  • reduce editorial costs while increasing volume of content processed.

Following a call for tender in 2011, SOQUIJ selected TEMIS’ semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid®, to achieve its objectives. The Luxid® for Content Enrichment platform, with its unique Skill Cartridge® system, enables the extraction of precise information while processing huge volumes of text, integrating seamlessly with the publisher’s editorial system.

Specifically to meet the requirements of this key government office, TEMIS developed a powerful extraction module that identifies references to jurisprudence, legislation, and legal doctrines. The development of this component and the quality assessment of its results were successfully performed using the productivity tools available in the Luxid® platform. 

SOQUIJ will use this solution to enrich more than 100,000 legal decisions in Quebec every year as well as its entire collection of legacy content, a total of one million documents including summaries, full texts and legal doctrine.

“The close partnership between SOQUIJ and TEMIS teams contributed to developing a high-quality information extraction system. The integration of annotation results within our production workflow is currently in progress. Luxid® will add value to our back files, bring significant productivity gains to our editorial process, and globally improve the quality of our content. As a next step, we also plan to enhance some existing products and launch innovative digital services to better serve our customers”, said Claude Paul-Hus, Executive Director, SOQUIJ.

“We are glad to announce this prestigious reference in the Canadian legal publishing sector. Our long experience and unrivalled expertise in the analysis of case law decisions convinced SOQUIJ of our ability to successfully meet its ambitious goals”, added Vincent Nibart, Sales Director, TEMIS Canada.

Luxid® automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured texts in order to:

  • automatically add links within content or between content and knowledge bases,
  • increase the relevance of search engine results,
  • create facets to filter search results and drill down to targeted content,
  • recommend related or similar documents based on their semantic proximity,
  • leverage ontologies to better discover and share content.

About SOQUIJ
Founded in 1976, SOQUIJ publishes case laws of Quebec courts. Its products, printed or digital, are sold to the legal community, both in the business and labor areas. SOQUIJ is attached to the Ministry of Justice of Quebec and operates on a self-funding basis, financed by the sale of its products and services.
http://soquij.qc.ca/

Read the Press Release in French @ http://www.temis.com/index.php?id=102&selt=14&lg=fr

Meet SOQUIJ and TEMIS today at the Legal IT Congress in Montreal

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