Overview and Business Case

The ROSS Intelligence tool is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform supporting legal research activities. Built on ROSS Intelligence’s proprietary legal AI framework, Legal Cortex, combined with technologies such as IBM Watson’s cognitive computing technology, ROSS uses Natural Language processing and machine learning capabilities to identify legal authorities relevant to particular questions. Users conduct searches by entering questions in plain language, rather than by complex search strings. ROSS’s cognitive computing and semantic analysis capabilities permit the tool to understand the intent of the question asked and identify answers “in context” within the searched authorities.
ROSS Intelligence positions its platform as a case law research supplement to traditional Boolean search and Natural Language parsing approaches used by electronic legal research tools. In this context, ROSS promises to provide increased research output quality (by collecting the most relevant authorities among its initial returned results) as well as a resulting improvement in the efficient execution of legal research activities when compared to the use of traditional tools alone.

Research Objectives and Methodology

In order to assess the potential impact of the ROSS AI-assisted research platform, Blue Hill Research conducted a benchmark study intended to record and compare the utility of the solution with traditional electronic legal research tools with respect to three primary categories:
• Quality of information retrie v a l
• User satisfaction and confidence
• Impact on research efficiency