CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Segmenting Legal Documents into Rhetorical Roles via Fine-tuned Transformer Architecture

Fareen Tasneem, Tashin Hossain, Jannatun Naim, Abu Nowshed Chy


Abstract
Automated processing of legal documents is essential to manage the enormous volume of legal corpus and to make it easily accessible to a broad spectrum of people. But due to the amorphous and variable nature of legal documents, it is very challenging to directly proceed with complicated processes such as summarization, analysis, and query. Segmenting the documents as per the rhetorical roles can aid and accelerate such procedures. This paper describes our participation in SemEval-2023 task 6: Sub-task A: Rhetorical Roles Prediction. We utilize a finetuned Legal-BERT to address this task. We also conduct an error analysis to illustrate the shortcomings of our deployed approach.
Anthology ID:
2023.semeval-1.291
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:
2112–2117
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.291
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.291
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Fareen Tasneem, Tashin Hossain, Jannatun Naim, and Abu Nowshed Chy. 2023. CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Segmenting Legal Documents into Rhetorical Roles via Fine-tuned Transformer Architecture. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 2112–2117, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CSECU-DSG at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Segmenting Legal Documents into Rhetorical Roles via Fine-tuned Transformer Architecture (Tasneem et al., SemEval 2023)
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