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EuroVoc-Based Summarization of European Case Law

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AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems (AICOL 2015, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2017, AICOL 2017)

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Abstract

This work reports on the ongoing development of a multilingual pipeline for the summarization of European case law. We apply the TextRank algorithm on concepts of the EuroVoc thesaurus in order to extract summarizing keywords and sentences. In a first case study, we demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of the presented approach for five different languages and 18 document sources.

C. Simon, K. Simon and K. Tomanek—The contributions were developed while this author was working at Averbis GmbH.

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Notes

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    http://libots.sourceforge.net/.

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    http://activemq.apache.org/.

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    http://eurovoc.europa.eu/.

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    Therefore, precision and recall are always marked with asterisks.

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    http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Legal+Case+Reports.

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Acknowledgments

Parts of this work have been supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme through the project EUCases–EUropean and National CASE Law and Legislation Linked in Open Data Stack (grant agreement no. 611760). We do also gratefully acknowledge the effort spent by all legal experts for finishing the questionnaires.

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  1. Averbis GmbH, Tennenbacher Str. 11, 79106, Freiburg, Germany

    Florian Schmedding, Peter Klügl & David Baehrens

  2. INTER CHALET Ferienhaus-Gesellschaft mbH, Heinrich-von-Stephan-Str. 25, 79100, Freiburg, Germany

    Christian Simon

  3. VigLink Inc., 333 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, USA

    Katrin Tomanek

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Schmedding, F., Klügl, P., Baehrens, D., Simon, C., Simon, K., Tomanek, K. (2018). EuroVoc-Based Summarization of European Case Law. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_13

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