Finnish Project on the Anonymization of Court Judgments with Language Technology and Machine Learning Apps
ANOPPI-project (Finnish Ministry of Justice)
The project Anoppi produces tools for (semi)automatic anonymization/pseudonymization and content description of documents that contain personal data, e.g. court decisions. The tools are developed by using the methods of language technology and machine learning.
In the project, the tools ANOPPI (anonymization tool) and APPI (software for content description) are implemented in Finnish judiciary, in order to intensify anonymization/pseudonymization of court decisions, and to enhance accessibility to case law. Results of the project are based on open source code and are, therefore, widely applicable.
The wider accessibility of court decisions improves transparency of our legal system and increases citizens’ legal protection. Availability of those documents, especially as an open data, is important to jurisdiction research, too.
The project Anoppi is coordinated by the Ministry of Justice and is carried out in cooperation with Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), Aalto University and Edita Publishing Ltd. The project is funded by the Ministry of Finance’s special funding for projects that aim to increase productivity by means of robotics, analytics and artificial intelligence.
Aki Hietanen
Head of development, Ministry of Justice
Mr Aki Hietanen is the Head of Development in the Finnish Ministry of Justice and the Project Manager of Finlex Legal Data Bank. He is a member of the EU Council Working Party on E-Law and E-Justice. Hietanen has chaired several European expert groups, i.a. on cross-border videoconferencing and electronic services related to fundamental rights.