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license: cc-by-nd-4.0 |
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viewer: true |
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task_categories: |
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- token-classification |
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tags: |
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- legal |
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pretty_name: Multilingual Negation Scope Resolution |
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size_categories: |
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- 1K<n<10K |
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--- |
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# Dataset Card for MultiLegalNeg |
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### Dataset Summary |
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This dataset consists of German, French, and Italian court documents annotated for negation cues and negation scopes. It also includes a reformated version of ConanDoyle-neg ([ |
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Morante and Blanco. 2012](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1035/)), SFU Review ([Konstantinova et al. 2012](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/533_Paper.pdf)), BioScope ([Szarvas et al. 2008](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0606/)) and Dalloux ([Dalloux et al. 2020](https://clementdalloux.fr/?page_id=28)). |
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### Languages |
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| Language | Subset | Number of sentences | Negated sentences | |
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| French | **fr** | 1059 | 382 | |
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| Italian | **it** | 1001 | 418 | |
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| German(Germany) | **de(DE)** | 1068 | 1098 | |
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| German (Switzerland) | **de(CH)** | 206 | 208 | |
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| English | **SFU Review** | 17672 | 3528 | |
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| English | **BioScope** | 14700 | 2095 | |
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| English | **ConanDoyle-neg**| 5714 | 5714 | |
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| French | **Dalloux** | 11032 | 1817 | |
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## Dataset Structure |
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### Data Fields |
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- text (string): full sentence |
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- spans (list): list of annotated cues and scopes |
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- start (int): offset of the beginning of the annotation |
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- end (int): offset of the end of the annotation |
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- token_start(int): id of the first token in the annotation |
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- token_end(int): id of the last token in the annotation |
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- label (string): CUE or SCOPE |
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- tokens (list): list of tokens in the sentence |
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- text (string): token text |
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- start (int): offset of the first character |
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- end (int): offset of the last character |
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- id (int): token id |
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- ws (boolean): indicates if the token is followed by a white space |
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### Data Splits |
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For each subset a train (70%), test (20%), and validation (10%) split is available. |
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#### How to use this dataset |
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To load all data use ```'all_all'```, or specify which dataset to load as the second argument. The available configurations are |
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```'de', 'fr', 'it', 'swiss', 'fr_dalloux', 'fr_all', 'en_bioscope', 'en_sherlock', 'en_sfu', 'en_all', 'all_all'``` |
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``` |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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dataset = load_dataset("rcds/MultiLegalNeg", "all_all") |
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dataset |
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``` |
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``` |
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DatasetDict({ |
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train: Dataset({ |
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features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
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num_rows: 26440 |
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}) |
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test: Dataset({ |
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features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
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num_rows: 7593 |
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}) |
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validation: Dataset({ |
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features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
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num_rows: 4053 |
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}) |
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}) |
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``` |
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### Source Data |
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| Subset | Source | |
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| **fr** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/), [Niklaus et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02069) | |
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| **it** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/), [Niklaus et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02069) | |
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| **de(DE)** | [Glaser et al. 2021](https://www.scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0010246308120821) | |
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| **de(CH)** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/) | |
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| **SFU Review** | [Konstantinova et al. 2012](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/533_Paper.pdf) | |
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| **BioScope** | [Szarvas et al. 2008](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0606/) | |
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| **ConanDoyle-neg**| [Morante and Blanco. 2012](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1035/) | |
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| **Dalloux** | [Dalloux et al. 2020](https://clementdalloux.fr/?page_id=28) | |
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### Annotations |
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The data is annotated for negation cues and their scopes. Annotation guidelines are available [here](https://github.com/RamonaChristen/Multilingual_Negation_Scope_Resolution_on_Legal_Data/blob/main/Annotation_Guidelines.pdf) |
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#### Annotation process |
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Each language was annotated by one native speaking annotator and follows strict annotation guidelines |
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### Citation Information |
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Please cite the following preprint: |
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``` |
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@misc{christen2023resolving, |
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title={Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents}, |
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author={Ramona Christen and Anastassia Shaitarova and Matthias Stürmer and Joel Niklaus}, |
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year={2023}, |
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eprint={2309.08695}, |
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archivePrefix={arXiv}, |
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primaryClass={cs.CL} |
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} |
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``` |
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