Data-efficient end-to-end Information Extraction for Statistical Legal Analysis
Wonseok Hwang, Saehee Eom, Hanuhl Lee, Hai Jin Park, Minjoon Seo
Abstract
Legal practitioners often face a vast amount of documents. Lawyers, for instance, search for appropriate precedents favorable to their clients, while the number of legal precedents is ever-growing. Although legal search engines can assist finding individual target documents and narrowing down the number of candidates, retrieved information is often presented as unstructured text and users have to examine each document thoroughly which could lead to information overloading. This also makes their statistical analysis challenging. Here, we present an end-to-end information extraction (IE) system for legal documents. By formulating IE as a generation task, our system can be easily applied to various tasks without domain-specific engineering effort. The experimental results of four IE tasks on Korean precedents shows that our IE system can achieve competent scores (-2.3 on average) compared to the rule-based baseline with as few as 50 training examples per task and higher score (+5.4 on average) with 200 examples. Finally, our statistical analysis on two case categories — drunk driving and fraud — with 35k precedents reveals the resulting structured information from our IE system faithfully reflects the macroscopic features of Korean legal system.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.nllp-1.12
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Nikolaos Aletras, Ilias Chalkidis, Leslie Barrett, Cătălina Goanță, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro
- Venue:
- NLLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 143–152
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.12
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.nllp-1.12
- Cite (ACL):
- Wonseok Hwang, Saehee Eom, Hanuhl Lee, Hai Jin Park, and Minjoon Seo. 2022. Data-efficient end-to-end Information Extraction for Statistical Legal Analysis. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022, pages 143–152, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Data-efficient end-to-end Information Extraction for Statistical Legal Analysis (Hwang et al., NLLP 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.nllp-1.12.pdf