A growing applied NLP/search/data-centric conference bringing together legal professionals, startup engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs, using text mining to build new companies through understanding of business and legal data. EVery business document should have clear meaning as it may have legal, contractual, and complicance ramifications. Although much of ecommerce moved online, business workflows exist within private document-centric ecosystems. In every company there's a "document balck market" where documents are shared laterally among the employees without explicit governance and machine understanding helping the company understand where information is. We bring the same successful approaches powering search and NLP on the Web to business document ecosystem.

Please see the umbrella Data By the Bay description of a good talk By the Bay.

For Law By the Bay, some specific topics of interest include those covered in Text By the Bay 2015 and beyond and applying to legal domain, such as

• Open-source libraries for parsing, entity linking, etc., at scale
• Public corpora, crowdsourcing, labels, AIAI platforms, human-computer systems
• Semantic modeling, knowledge bases, ontologies, legal search
• Personalized legal NLP -- e.g. understanding individual judges from their output
• Deep Learning on legal corpora
• And more!

Last year, we started with a two-day, three-track, 50-talk conference. We've put together an inspiring program centered around language, Big Data, text and images, deep learning, UI, social networks, and much more.

This year, we're running the first data grid conference sequence with with seven verticals over five days. Each day's attendance is limited to only 400 seats and it will be full. We hope you join us in May By the Bay!