Summary LlamaIndex Sessions: Practical challenges of building a Legal Chatbot over your PDFs - YouTube (Youtube) youtu.be
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The text discusses the challenges of building a legal chatbot that parses PDFs, including limitations of existing parsers, the need for accurate OCR, handling specific domains and structured data, and the potential for creating comparison tools and unified document representations.
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- The discussion revolves around the challenges of building a legal chatbot and improving PDF parsing.
- The importance of parsing queries and improving core query qualities is emphasized.
- Limitations of existing PDF parsers and the need for more specific domain processing are mentioned.
- Challenges with multilingual capabilities and processing mix format documents and foreign languages are highlighted.
- The need for considering security settings in downloaded PDFs and training models to improve accuracy is mentioned.
- Better handling of tables and structured data within PDFs is identified as a key feature needed in PDF parsers.
- The idea of creating a unified document representation that combines structured and unstructured data is suggested.
- The challenges of parsing tables within PDFs and the potential for creating a comparison tool for PDF parsers are discussed.
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In this text excerpt, Speaker 1 expresses gratitude for the opportunity to discuss the challenges of building a legal chatbot. Speaker 0 finds the podcast educational and learns about PDF parsing and the difficulties of building a useful tool. They discuss the importance of parsing queries and improving core query qualities. They also mention the limitations of existing PDF parsers and the need for more specific domain processing. They touch on challenges with multilingual capabilities and the lack of processing for mix format documents and foreign languages.
Speaker 0 asks about potential directions for exploration beyond hybrid search and ranking. Speaker 1 mentions the need for considering security settings in downloaded PDFs and the potential for training models to improve accuracy. They discuss the challenges with OCR software, particularly with handwriting recognition. They mention the discrepancies in performance among different OCR tools and the need to carefully select parsers for documents containing handwritten information.
Speaker 0 inquires about features they wish PDF parsers had, and Speaker 1 mentions the need for better handling of tables and structured data within PDFs. They discuss the benefits of using a data frame to process structured data and suggest creating a unified document representation that combines structured and unstructured data. They also mention the idea of comparing different PDF parsers and showcasing their inputs and outputs.
They discuss the challenges of parsing tables within PDFs and mention that some parsers only extract tables while others extract text as well. Speaker 0 suggests creating a comparison tool for PDF parsers similar to nat dot dev for L, and Speaker 1 agrees it would be useful. They also mention using G4 to clean up documents and discuss the limitations of OCR over different types of documents, including ones with handwriting or watermarks.
Overall, they discuss the challenges of PDF parsing, the limitations of existing parsers, and potential directions for improvement. They highlight the importance of handling specific domains, multilingual capabilities, and structured data within PDFs. They also emphasize the need for accurate OCR, particularly for handwritten text, and the potential for creating comparison tools and unified document representations. The speaker discusses the use of a ranking module to improve the precision of search results. They explain that the first step is to retrieve documents based on metadata, and then use embedded retrieval to find more relevant information within those documents. The speaker mentions that hybrid search can increase accuracy, but it is not yet perfect. They also mention the challenges of assigning text to specific judges and the different processing strategies they have tried. The speaker talks about the formatting challenges of different types of documents and the overall structure of a supreme court case. They mention that the current iteration of the chatbot is focused on helping users understand supreme court cases, but they plan to add more features in the future. Speaker 1 is discussing the first iteration of a legal chatbot that pulls from legal opinions from the Supreme Court, dating back to the 1800s, and existing PDF files on the Supreme Court website and Library of Congress. The chatbot is being built to provide accessible resources on legal matters, specifically Supreme Court decisions and opinions. Sam Yu, a software engineer and co-founder of honorable.ai, discusses the challenges of building this legal chatbot. This conversation is part of the Llama Index webinar.