Enhancing Sentiment Analysis and Error Prediction in Lawyer Questioning Through Legal NLP Models: A Mixed-Methods Study in Australian Courtrooms

Ran Yi, Australian Human Rights Institute, Faculty of Law and Justice, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, College of International Studies, National University of Defense Technology

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

Published online on March 06, 2026

Abstract

Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Ahead of Print.
This mixed methods study investigates the use of natural language processing (NLP) to analyze sentiment and predict interpretation errors in bilingual court interpreting, focusing on Mandarin-English remote hearings. We assembled a dataset of 3,250 ...