Astha Agarwal


2022

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Corpus for Automatic Structuring of Legal Documents
Prathamesh Kalamkar | Aman Tiwari | Astha Agarwal | Saurabh Karn | Smita Gupta | Vivek Raghavan | Ashutosh Modi
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

In populous countries, pending legal cases have been growing exponentially. There is a need for developing techniques for processing and organizing legal documents. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus for structuring legal documents. In particular, we introduce a corpus of legal judgment documents in English that are segmented into topical and coherent parts. Each of these parts is annotated with a label coming from a list of pre-defined Rhetorical Roles. We develop baseline models for automatically predicting rhetorical roles in a legal document based on the annotated corpus. Further, we show the application of rhetorical roles to improve performance on the tasks of summarization and legal judgment prediction. We release the corpus and baseline model code along with the paper.

2015

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Adjective Intensity and Sentiment Analysis
Raksha Sharma | Mohit Gupta | Astha Agarwal | Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing