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Recognizing cited facts and principles in legal judgements

Olga Shulayeva, Advaith Siddharthan, Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 107 - 126

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10506-017-9197-6

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In common law, lawyers cite facts and legal principles from precedent cases for their arguments in support of their current case. Such facts and principles must be identified, though this is a highly time intensive task. We demonstrate that human annotators can agreement on which sentences are facts...

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ISSN: 0924-8463 1572-8382
Published: Springer 2017
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