A Dataset of German Legal Documents for Named Entity Recognition

Elena Leitner, Georg Rehm, Julian Moreno-Schneider


Abstract
We describe a dataset developed for Named Entity Recognition in German federal court decisions. It consists of approx. 67,000 sentences with over 2 million tokens. The resource contains 54,000 manually annotated entities, mapped to 19 fine-grained semantic classes: person, judge, lawyer, country, city, street, landscape, organization, company, institution, court, brand, law, ordinance, European legal norm, regulation, contract, court decision, and legal literature. The legal documents were, furthermore, automatically annotated with more than 35,000 TimeML-based time expressions. The dataset, which is available under a CC-BY 4.0 license in the CoNNL-2002 format, was developed for training an NER service for German legal documents in the EU project Lynx.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.551
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4478–4485
Language:
English
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.551
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Cite (ACL):
Elena Leitner, Georg Rehm, and Julian Moreno-Schneider. 2020. A Dataset of German Legal Documents for Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4478–4485, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Cite (Informal):
A Dataset of German Legal Documents for Named Entity Recognition (Leitner et al., LREC 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.551.pdf
Code
 elenanereiss/Legal-Entity-Recognition
Data
Dataset of Legal Documents