uOttawa at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Deep Learning for Legal Text Understanding

Intisar Almuslim, Sean Stilwell, Surya Kiran Suresh, Diana Inkpen


Abstract
We describe the methods we used for legal text understanding, specifically Task 6 Legal-Eval at SemEval 2023. The outcomes could assist law practitioners and help automate the working process of judicial systems. The shared task defined three main sub-tasks: sub-task A, Rhetorical Roles Prediction (RR); sub-task B, Legal Named Entities Extraction (L-NER); and sub-task C, Court Judgement Prediction with Explanation (CJPE). Our team addressed all three sub-tasks by exploring various Deep Learning (DL) based models. Overall, our team’s approaches achieved promising results on all three sub-tasks, demonstrating the potential of deep learning-based models in the judicial domain.
Anthology ID:
2023.semeval-1.79
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
580–588
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.79
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.79
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Intisar Almuslim, Sean Stilwell, Surya Kiran Suresh, and Diana Inkpen. 2023. uOttawa at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Deep Learning for Legal Text Understanding. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 580–588, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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uOttawa at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Deep Learning for Legal Text Understanding (Almuslim et al., SemEval 2023)
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