A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19

Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie de Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries, Clara Egger, Tommaso Caselli


Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed the implementations of exceptional measures by governments across the world to counteract its impact. This work presents the initial results of an on-going project, EXCEPTIUS, aiming to automatically identify, classify and com- pare exceptional measures against COVID-19 across 32 countries in Europe. To this goal, we created a corpus of legal documents with sentence-level annotations of eight different classes of exceptional measures that are im- plemented across these countries. We evalu- ated multiple multi-label classifiers on a manu- ally annotated corpus at sentence level. The XLM-RoBERTa model achieves highest per- formance on this multilingual multi-label clas- sification task, with a macro-average F1 score of 59.8%.
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2021.nllp-1.5
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Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021
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November
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2021
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Nikolaos Aletras, Ion Androutsopoulos, Leslie Barrett, Catalina Goanta, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro
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NLLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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46–62
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.nllp-1.5
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Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie de Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries, Clara Egger, and Tommaso Caselli. 2021. A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021, pages 46–62, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19 (Tziafas et al., NLLP 2021)
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