Jus Mundi at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Using a Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaption for a Legal Named Entity Recognition System

Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Akshita Gheewala


Abstract
In this work, we present a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system that was trained using a Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation (FEDA) over multiple legal corpora. The goal was to create a NER capable of detecting 14 types of legal named entities in Indian judgments. Besides the FEDA architecture, we explored a method based on overlapping context and averaging tensors to process long input texts, which can be beneficial when processing legal documents. The proposed NER reached an F1-score of 0.9007 in the sub-task B of Semeval-2023 Task 6, Understanding Legal Texts.
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2023.semeval-1.247
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1783–1790
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.247
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.247
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Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego and Akshita Gheewala. 2023. Jus Mundi at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Using a Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaption for a Legal Named Entity Recognition System. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1783–1790, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Jus Mundi at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Using a Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaption for a Legal Named Entity Recognition System (Cabrera-Diego & Gheewala, SemEval 2023)
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