Research & Innovation
About JuDDGES
Advancing legal research through artificial intelligence and open science
Home institution
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Polish: Politechnika Wrocławska) is a leading technological university in Wrocław, Poland. Founded in 1945, the university is recognized for its research and engineering education. Named by Huffington Post UK in the top 15 of the World's Most Beautiful Universities Rankings, its main campus is located near Plac Grunwaldzki alongside the Oder river.
The university ranks among the best in the world according to the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU 2021: 901-1000 band) and holds 3rd place among Polish technical universities. With over 26,000 students and more than 4,000 academic staff, it operates 14 faculties across engineering, sciences, medicine, and social sciences. This platform is developed by the Department of Artificial Intelligence at WUST, which conducts research in AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and legal informatics, contributing to both academic advancement and real-world applications.
International Recognition
- QS World University Rankings: 7 scientific fields classified
- Material Sciences: Top 301-350 globally
- Mathematics: Top 201-300 globally (ARWU)
- Regional Ranking Europe & Central Asia: 43rd place
Platform
JuDDGES Platform
Judicial Decision Data Gathering, Encoding, and Sharing
JuDDGES is a platform for the analysis of legal documents, particularly court judgments and legal decisions. Our goal is to use artificial intelligence to:
- Automate the analysis of complex legal documents
- Extract relevant information from court judgments
- Provide insights into judicial reasoning and case law trends
- Support legal professionals in their research and analysis
- Improve accessibility to legal information
Through natural language processing and machine learning techniques, we aim to make legal document analysis more efficient and accessible to both legal professionals and the general public.
Technologies & Methods
Research project
JuDDGES Project
Judicial Decision-making Data Generation and Evaluation System
The JuDDGES project applies Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) methods to change how legal researchers access, annotate, and analyze judicial decisions across various jurisdictions. Our team is committed to dissolving barriers in legal research, fostering open science, and enhancing the empirical study of judicial decision-making.
JuDDGES aims to develop open software and tools for the extensive and flexible meta-annotation of legal records from criminal courts in jurisdictions with diverse legal systems, starting with Poland and England & Wales. This initiative is designed to support the development and empirical testing of theories in judicial decision-making, facilitating a deeper understanding of judicial policies and practices.
Key Goals
Jurisdictions Covered
Ecosystem
Open Source Ecosystem
JuDDGES is built as a federation of focused open-source tools, not a single monolithic app
This platform is one of several independently maintained projects that together form the JuDDGES research pipeline. The parent research project hosts datasets, NLP pipelines, and HITL experiments. A dedicated annotation workbench, maintained by partner contributors, produces the verified ground-truth annotations that downstream tools — including this platform — consume.
Keeping the projects separate but linked through shared open data formats lets each team iterate on their own cadence while still contributing to a coherent whole.
Middlesex University, London
Upstream human-in-the-loop workbench for verifying LLM extractions.
tsantosh7/hitl-toolImpact
Our Impact
Contributing to judgments analysis research and practice
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