Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain

no code implementations • 23 Feb 2023 • Daniel Martin Katz, Dirk Hartung, Lauritz Gerlach, Abhik Jana, Michael J. Bommarito II

To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a nearly complete corpus of more than six hundred NLP & Law related papers published over the past decade.

Sharing and Caring: Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism in Computational Legal Studies

no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung

We introduce seven foundational principles for creating a culture of constructive criticism in computational legal studies.

Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting

no code implementations • 15 Oct 2021 • Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf, Maximilian Böther, Daniel Martin Katz

Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i. e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the comprehensibility and maintainability of the law.

LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English

1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz, Nikolaos Aletras

Laws and their interpretations, legal arguments and agreements\ are typically expressed in writing, leading to the production of vast corpora of legal text.

Multi-class Classification Multi-Label Classification +3