@inproceedings{yamada-etal-2017-annotation,
    title = "Annotation of argument structure in {J}apanese legal documents",
    author = "Yamada, Hiroaki  and
      Teufel, Simone  and
      Tokunaga, Takenobu",
    editor = "Habernal, Ivan  and
      Gurevych, Iryna  and
      Ashley, Kevin  and
      Cardie, Claire  and
      Green, Nancy  and
      Litman, Diane  and
      Petasis, Georgios  and
      Reed, Chris  and
      Slonim, Noam  and
      Walker, Vern",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-5103/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5103",
    pages = "22--31",
    abstract = "We propose a method for the annotation of Japanese civil judgment documents, with the purpose of creating flexible summaries of these. The first step, described in the current paper, concerns content selection, i.e., the question of which material should be extracted initially for the summary. In particular, we utilize the hierarchical argument structure of the judgment documents. Our main contributions are a) the design of an annotation scheme that stresses the connection between legal points (called issue topics) and argument structure, b) an adaptation of rhetorical status to suit the Japanese legal system and c) the definition of a linked argument structure based on legal sub-arguments. In this paper, we report agreement between two annotators on several aspects of the overall task."
}