Nima Meghdadi
2024
uOttawa at LegalLens-2024: Transformer-based Classification Experiments
Nima Meghdadi
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Diana Inkpen
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024
This paper presents the methods used for LegalLens-2024, which focused on detecting legal violations within unstructured textual data and associating these violations with potentially affected individuals. The shared task included two subtasks: A) Legal Named Entity Recognition (L-NER) and B) Legal Natural Language Inference (L-NLI). For subtask A, we utilized the spaCy library, while for subtask B, we employed a combined model incorporating RoBERTa and CNN. Our results were 86.3% in the L-NER subtask and 88.25% in the L-NLI subtask. Overall, our paper demonstrates the effectiveness of transformer models in addressing complex tasks in the legal domain.