On the Ethical Limits of Natural Language Processing on Legal Text

no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Nikolaos Aletras

Natural language processing (NLP) methods for analyzing legal text offer legal scholars and practitioners a range of tools allowing to empirically analyze law on a large scale.

Paragraph-level Rationale Extraction through Regularization: A case study on European Court of Human Rights Cases

no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Nikolaos Aletras, Ion Androutsopoulos, Prodromos Malakasiotis

We also release a new dataset comprising European Court of Human Rights cases, including annotations for paragraph-level rationales.