Built on top of Watson, IBM’s cognitive computer, ROSS is a digital legal expert that helps you power through your legal research.
ROSS is an artificially intelligent attorney to help you power through legal research. ROSS improves upon existing alternatives by actually understanding your questions in natural sentences like – “Can a bankrupt company still conduct business?”
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers.
ROSS then provides you an instant answer with citations and suggests highly topical readings from a variety of content sources.
You ask your questions in plain English, as you would a colleague, and ROSS then reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed quickly.
In addition, ROSS monitors the law around the clock to notify you of new court decisions that can affect your case.
ROSS is built upon Watson, IBM’s cognitive computer. Almost all of the legal information that you rely on is unstructured data—it is in the form of text, and not neatly situated in the rows and columns of a database. Watson is able to mine facts and conclusions from over a billion of these text documents a second. Meanwhile, existing solutions rely on search technologies that simply find keywords.
So what can ROSS do?
- Provide you a highly relevant answer, not 1000s of results, to your question posed in natural language, not keywords.
- Monitor the law for changes that can positively/negatively affect your case, instead of flooding you with legal news.
- Learn the more you and other lawyers use it.
- Offer a simple, consistent experience across all your devices and form factors.
Ross also minimizes the time it takes by narrowing down results from a thousand to only the most highly relevant answers, and presents the answers in a more casual, understandable language. It also keeps up-to-date with developments in the legal system, specifically those that may affect your cases.
