LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Sequential Sentence Classification for Legal Documents Using Topic Modeling Features

Kushagri Tandon, Niladri Chatterjee


Abstract
Natural Language Processing techniques can be leveraged to process legal proceedings for various downstream applications, such as sum- marization of a given judgement, prediction of the judgement for a given legal case, prece- dent search, among others. These applications will benefit from legal judgement documents already segmented into topically coherent units. The current task, namely, Rhetorical Role Pre- diction, aims at categorising each sentence in the sequence of sentences in a judgement document into different labels. The system proposed in this work combines topic mod- eling and RoBERTa to encode sentences in each document. A BiLSTM layer has been utilised to get contextualised sentence repre- sentations. The Rhetorical Role predictions for each sentence in each document are gen- erated by a final CRF layer of the proposed neuro-computing system. This system secured the rank 12 in the official task ranking, achiev- ing the micro-F1 score 0.7980. The code for the proposed systems has been made available at https://github.com/KushagriT/SemEval23_ LegalEval_TeamLRL_NC
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2023.semeval-1.20
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Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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143–149
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.20
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.20
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Kushagri Tandon and Niladri Chatterjee. 2023. LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Sequential Sentence Classification for Legal Documents Using Topic Modeling Features. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 143–149, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Sequential Sentence Classification for Legal Documents Using Topic Modeling Features (Tandon & Chatterjee, SemEval 2023)
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