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Dataset Summary

This is a multilingual dataset containing ~130k annotated sentence boundaries. It contains laws and court decision in 6 different languages.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish

Dataset Structure

It is structured in the following format: {language}_{type}_{shard}.jsonl.xz

type is one of the following:

laws
judgements

Use the the dataset like this:

from datasets import load_dataset
config = 'fr_laws' #{language}_{type} | to load all languages and/or all types, use 'all_all'
dataset = load_dataset('rcds/MultiLegalSBD', config)

Data Instances

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Data Fields

text: the original text
spans:
- start: offset of the first character
- end: offset of the last character
- label: One label only -> Sentence
- token_start: id of the first token
- token_end: id of the last token
tokens:
- text: token text
- start: offset of the first character
- end: offset of the last character
- id: token id
- ws: whether the token is followed by whitespace

Data Splits

There is only one split available

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@inproceedings{10.1145/3594536.3595132,
author = {Brugger, Tobias and St\"{u}rmer, Matthias and Niklaus, Joel},
title = {MultiLegalSBD: A Multilingual Legal Sentence Boundary Detection Dataset},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701979},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3594536.3595132},
doi = {10.1145/3594536.3595132},
abstract = {Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) is one of the foundational building blocks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with incorrectly split sentences heavily influencing the output quality of downstream tasks. It is a challenging task for algorithms, especially in the legal domain, considering the complex and different sentence structures used. In this work, we curated a diverse multilingual legal dataset consisting of over 130'000 annotated sentences in 6 languages. Our experimental results indicate that the performance of existing SBD models is subpar on multilingual legal data. We trained and tested monolingual and multilingual models based on CRF, BiLSTM-CRF, and transformers, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance. We also show that our multilingual models outperform all baselines in the zero-shot setting on a Portuguese test set. To encourage further research and development by the community, we have made our dataset, models, and code publicly available.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law},
pages = {42–51},
numpages = {10},
keywords = {Natural Language Processing, Sentence Boundary Detection, Text Annotation, Legal Document Analysis, Multilingual},
location = {Braga, Portugal},
series = {ICAIL '23}
}

Contributions

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