Automatic detection of arguments in legal texts

  • Authors:
  • Marie-Francine Moens;Erik Boiy;Raquel Mochales Palau;Chris Reed

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper provides the results of experiments on the detection of arguments in texts among which are legal texts. The detection is seen as a classification problem. A classifier is trained on a set of annotated arguments. Different feature sets are evaluated involving lexical, syntactic, semantic and discourse properties of the texts. The experiments are a first step in the context of automatically classifying arguments in legal texts according to their rhetorical type and their visualization for convenient access and search.