{"id":713624,"date":"2026-06-04T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713624\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:09:26","slug":"ai-awards-legal-triage-tool-and-translator-from-melbourne-university-and-justice-connect-helps-broaden-access-to-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713624\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Awards: Legal triage tool and translator from Melbourne University and Justice Connect helps broaden access to the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law can be a bit like a foreign language, with its strange words, Latin terms and hyper-specific phrases. It takes years of study to become fluent. For the lay person, understanding all this legalese is hard enough: speaking it is nigh impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Until today. Thanks to two teams of Melbourne legal experts and computer scientists, there\u2019s now a kind of Google Translate for law, which lets ordinary people use their own words when looking for pro bono legal help. It\u2019s a major win for access to justice, and it\u2019s all powered by AI.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The law can be a bit like a foreign language, with its strange words, Latin terms and hyper-specific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-713624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}