TY - GEN
T1 - Connecting Symbolic Statutory Reasoning with Legal Information Extraction
AU - Holzenberger, Nils
AU - Van Durme, Benjamin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Statutory reasoning is the task of determining whether a given law - a part of a statute - applies to a given legal case. Previous work has shown that structured, logical representations of laws and cases can be leveraged to solve statutory reasoning, including on the StAtutory Reasoning Assessment dataset (SARA), but rely on costly human translation into structured representations. Here, we investigate a form of legal information extraction atop the SARA cases, illustrating how the task can be done with high performance. Further, we show how the performance of downstream symbolic reasoning directly correlates with the quality of the information extraction.
AB - Statutory reasoning is the task of determining whether a given law - a part of a statute - applies to a given legal case. Previous work has shown that structured, logical representations of laws and cases can be leveraged to solve statutory reasoning, including on the StAtutory Reasoning Assessment dataset (SARA), but rely on costly human translation into structured representations. Here, we investigate a form of legal information extraction atop the SARA cases, illustrating how the task can be done with high performance. Further, we show how the performance of downstream symbolic reasoning directly correlates with the quality of the information extraction.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85184996768
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2023.nllp-1.12
DO - 10.18653/v1/2023.nllp-1.12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85184996768
T3 - NLLP 2023 - Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023, Proceedings of the Workshop
SP - 113
EP - 131
BT - NLLP 2023 - Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023, Proceedings of the Workshop
A2 - Preotiuc-Pietro, Daniel
A2 - Goanta, Catalina
A2 - Chalkidis, Ilias
A2 - Barrett, Leslie
A2 - Spanakis, Gerasimos
A2 - Aletras, Nikolaos
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 5th Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, NLLP 2023
Y2 - 7 December 2023
ER -