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| license: cc-by-nd-4.0 |
| viewer: true |
| task_categories: |
| - token-classification |
| tags: |
| - legal |
| pretty_name: Multilingual Negation Scope Resolution |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| --- |
| # 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 ([ |
| 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 | |
| |----------------------|-----------------|----------------------|-------------------| |
| | French | **fr** | 1059 | 382 | |
| | Italian | **it** | 1001 | 418 | |
| | German(Germany) | **de(DE)** | 1068 | 1098 | |
| | German (Switzerland) | **de(CH)** | 206 | 208 | |
| | English | **SFU Review** | 17672 | 3528 | |
| | English | **BioScope** | 14700 | 2095 | |
| | English | **ConanDoyle-neg**| 5714 | 5714 | |
| | French | **Dalloux** | 11032 | 1817 | |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| ### Data Fields |
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| - text (string): full sentence |
| - spans (list): list of annotated cues and scopes |
| - start (int): offset of the beginning of the annotation |
| - end (int): offset of the end of the annotation |
| - token_start(int): id of the first token in the annotation |
| - token_end(int): id of the last token in the annotation |
| - label (string): CUE or SCOPE |
| - tokens (list): list of tokens in the sentence |
| - text (string): token text |
| - start (int): offset of the first character |
| - end (int): offset of the last character |
| - id (int): token id |
| - ws (boolean): indicates if the token is followed by a white space |
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| ### Data Splits |
| 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 |
| ```'de', 'fr', 'it', 'swiss', 'fr_dalloux', 'fr_all', 'en_bioscope', 'en_sherlock', 'en_sfu', 'en_all', 'all_all'``` |
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| ``` |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
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| dataset = load_dataset("rcds/MultiLegalNeg", "all_all") |
| |
| dataset |
| ``` |
| ``` |
| DatasetDict({ |
| train: Dataset({ |
| features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
| num_rows: 26440 |
| }) |
| test: Dataset({ |
| features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
| num_rows: 7593 |
| }) |
| validation: Dataset({ |
| features: ['text', 'spans', 'tokens'], |
| num_rows: 4053 |
| }) |
| }) |
| ``` |
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| ### Source Data |
| | Subset | Source | |
| |-------------------|----------------------| |
| | **fr** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/), [Niklaus et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02069) | |
| | **it** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/), [Niklaus et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02069) | |
| | **de(DE)** | [Glaser et al. 2021](https://www.scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0010246308120821) | |
| | **de(CH)** | [Niklaus et al. 2021](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.3/) | |
| | **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/) | |
| | **ConanDoyle-neg**| [Morante and Blanco. 2012](https://aclanthology.org/S12-1035/) | |
| | **Dalloux** | [Dalloux et al. 2020](https://clementdalloux.fr/?page_id=28) | |
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| ### Annotations |
| 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) |
| #### Annotation process |
| 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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| ``` |
| @misc{christen2023resolving, |
| title={Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents}, |
| author={Ramona Christen and Anastassia Shaitarova and Matthias Stürmer and Joel Niklaus}, |
| year={2023}, |
| eprint={2309.08695}, |
| archivePrefix={arXiv}, |
| primaryClass={cs.CL} |
| } |
| ``` |
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