AI Legal Simplifier: An Intelligent Multilingual Legal Document Analysis and Simplification System Using NLP and Web Technologies

This paper presented the AI Legal Simplifier (Lexi), a comprehensively engineered intelligent web system for legal document analysis. Lexi demonstrates that a practically deployable, secure, and multilingual legal document analysis system can be constructed without depending on large neural models for its primary functionality, using targeted NLP engineering to achieve results competitive with model-based approaches at a fraction of the inference cost. The system's sub-second analysis latency, 0.874 macro-F1 clause detection, 90% risk-score agreement with expert assessments, and production-grade security architecture position it as a significant contribution to democratizing access to legal document intelligence, particularly for multilingual communities in India and beyond

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