📰 Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 — accepted papers

Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 24 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic · 🗓 November 2021

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction BenchmarkJoel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer55 citations · our summary
2. Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification ↗Nut Limsopatham41 citations
3. Named Entity Recognition in the Romanian Legal Domain ↗Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Carol Luca Gasan et al.35 citations
4. JuriBERT: A Masked-Language Model Adaptation for French Legal Text ↗Stella Douka, Hadi Abdine, Michalis Vazirgiannis et al.31 citations
5. A Free Format Legal Question Answering System ↗Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana Punuru, Chad Morris et al.25 citations
6. jurBERT: A Romanian BERT Model for Legal Judgement Prediction ↗Mihai Masala, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban et al.25 citations
7. Multi-granular Legal Topic Classification on Greek Legislation ↗Christos Papaloukas, Ilias Chalkidis, Konstantinos Athinaios et al.22 citations
8. A Corpus for Multilingual Analysis of Online Terms of Service ↗Kasper Drawzeski, Andrea Galassi, Agnieszka Jablonowska et al.16 citations
9. GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval ↗Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel12 citations
10. Named Entity Recognition in Historic Legal Text: A Transformer and State Machine Ensemble Method ↗Fernando Trias, Hongming Wang, Sylvain Jaume et al.11 citations

All accepted papers (24)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction BenchmarkJoel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer55 citations · our summary
2. Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification ↗Nut Limsopatham41 citations
3. Named Entity Recognition in the Romanian Legal Domain ↗Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Carol Luca Gasan et al.35 citations
4. JuriBERT: A Masked-Language Model Adaptation for French Legal Text ↗Stella Douka, Hadi Abdine, Michalis Vazirgiannis et al.31 citations
5. A Free Format Legal Question Answering System ↗Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana Punuru, Chad Morris et al.25 citations
6. jurBERT: A Romanian BERT Model for Legal Judgement Prediction ↗Mihai Masala, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban et al.25 citations
7. Multi-granular Legal Topic Classification on Greek Legislation ↗Christos Papaloukas, Ilias Chalkidis, Konstantinos Athinaios et al.22 citations
8. A Corpus for Multilingual Analysis of Online Terms of Service ↗Kasper Drawzeski, Andrea Galassi, Agnieszka Jablonowska et al.16 citations
9. GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval ↗Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel12 citations
10. Named Entity Recognition in Historic Legal Text: A Transformer and State Machine Ensemble Method ↗Fernando Trias, Hongming Wang, Sylvain Jaume et al.11 citations
11. Summarization of German Court Rulings ↗Ingo Glaser, Sebastian Moser, Florian Matthes10 citations
12. A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19 ↗Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie de Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries et al.9 citations
13. Searching for Legal Documents at Paragraph Level: Automating Label Generation and Use of an Extended Attention Mask for Boosting Neural Models of Semantic Similarity ↗Li Tang, Simon Clematide9 citations
14. Capturing Logical Structure of Visually Structured Documents with Multimodal Transition Parser ↗Yuta Koreeda, Christopher Manning7 citations
15. Few-shot and Zero-shot Approaches to Legal Text Classification: A Case Study in the Financial Sector ↗Rajdeep Sarkar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Jay Megaro et al.6 citations
16. Automatic Resolution of Domain Name Disputes ↗Wayan Oger Vihikan, Meladel Mistica, Inbar Levy et al.5 citations
17. SPaR.txt, a Cheap Shallow Parsing Approach for Regulatory Texts ↗Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray et al.5 citations
18. Automating Claim Construction in Patent Applications: The CMUmine Dataset ↗Ozan Tonguz, Yiwei Qin, Yimeng Gu et al.4 citations
19. Learning from Limited Labels for Long Legal Dialogue ↗Jenny Hong, Derek Chong, Christopher Manning3 citations
20. Legal Terminology Extraction with the Termolator ↗Nhi Pham, Lachlan Pham, Adam L. Meyers2 citations
21. Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew LanguageMohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Noga Berger et al.1 citation · our summary
22. Machine Extraction of Tax Laws from Legislative Texts ↗Elliott Ash, Malka Guillot, Luyang Han1 citation
23. Semi-automatic Triage of Requests for Free Legal Assistance ↗Meladel Mistica, Jey Han Lau, Brayden Merrifield et al.1 citation
24. Supervised Identification of Participant Slots in Contracts ↗Dan Simonson

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction BenchmarkNatural Legal Language Processing WorkshopJoel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer2021 · 129 citations
2. Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew LanguageMohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Noga Berger, et al.2021 · 3 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

⚖️Legal AI (2)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (1)Semitic languages (1)Modern Hebrew (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (2)🖥️Computer Science (2)🤝Social Sciences (2)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓University of BernBern · Switzerland1 work here🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark1 work here🎓Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat Gan · Israel1 work here🎓Hebrew University of JerusalemJerusalem · Israel1 work here

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