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This paper proposes several recurrent neural network-based models for recognizing requisite and effectuation (RE) parts in Legal Texts. Firstly, we propose a modification of BiLSTM-CRF model that allows the use of external features to improve the performance of deep learning models in case large annotated corpora are not available. However, this model can only recognize RE parts which are not overlapped. Secondly, we propose two approaches for recognizing overlapping RE parts including the cascading approach which uses the sequence of BiLSTM-CRF models and the unified model approach with the multilayer BiLSTM-CRF model and the multilayer BiLSTM-MLP-CRF model. Experimental results on two Japan law RRE datasets demonstrated advantages of our proposed models. For the Japanese National Pension Law dataset, our approaches obtained an \(F_{1}\) score of 93.27% and exhibited a significant improvement compared to previous approaches. For the Japan Civil Code RRE dataset which is written in English, our approaches produced an \(F_{1}\) score of 78.24% in recognizing RE parts that exhibited a significant improvement over strong baselines. In addition, using external features and in-domain pre-trained word embeddings also improved the performance of RRE systems.
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http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp: This site contains the English translation of Japanese legal documents including Japanese Civil Code.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K16048, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15K12094, and JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR1513, Japan.
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Nguyen, TS., Nguyen, LM., Tojo, S. et al. Recurrent neural network-based models for recognizing requisite and effectuation parts in legal texts. Artif Intell Law 26, 169–199 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-018-9225-1
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