SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL MATERIAL FACTS IN DOCUMENTS

Systems and methods to identify potential material fact sentences in electronic legal documents obtained from electronic repositories are disclosed. A system includes a processing device and a storage medium in communication with the processing device. The storage medium includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to obtain a document and parse text within the document to determine whether each paragraph in the document is a fact paragraph, a discussion paragraph, or an outcome paragraph based on at least one of a heading associated with the paragraph and features of the paragraph. The storage medium further includes programming instructions that cause the processing device to extract each sentence in the fact paragraph, direct a trained sentence classifier to determine whether each sentence is a potential material fact sentence or a non-material fact sentence based on features of the sentence, and identify potential material fact sentences.