Hi All,

We invite you to participate in SemEval-2023 Task 6: LegalEval: Understanding Legal Texts

*Task Website: *https://sites.google.com/view/legaleval/ https://sites.google.com/view/legaleval/ *Registration: *https://forms.gle/uoeRrqjcYLnae5Ls6

In populous countries (e.g., India), pending legal cases have grown exponentially. Due to the nature of the legal domain, it may not be possible to automate the entire judicial pipeline completely; nevertheless, many intermediate tasks can be automated to augment legal practitioners and hence expedite the system. However, legal texts are different from commonly occurring texts typically used to train NLP models which make it difficult to apply existing NLP models and techniques directly, which calls for the development of legal domain-specific techniques. We are proposing 3 shared subtasks which will act as building blocks in developing legal AI applications:

(A) Rhetorical Roles (RR): Structuring unstructured legal documents into semantically coherent units (B) Legal Named Entity Recognition (L-NER): Identifying relevant entities in a legal document (C) Court Judgement Prediction with Explanation (CJPE): Predicting the outcome of a case along with an explanation

Participants can take part in one or more subtasks.

*Shared task schedule:*

- Training data ready: September 1, 2022 - Evaluation data ready: December 15, 2022 - Evaluation start: January 10, 2023 - Evaluation end: by January 31, 2023 - System description paper submissions due: February 23, 2023 - Notification to authors: March 31, 2023

*Task organizers*

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*Prathamesh Kalamkar * https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fprathamesh-kalamkar-16282521%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1i4MbIKNaX9b62qF465jQI -

*Saurabh Karn* https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Saurabh&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3hKUxrLSWXXNOSnJSiG6qA -

*Smita Gupta * https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Smita&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0A_34Lo2uZYLvK3rAFPbvx -

*Sachin Malhan* https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Sachin&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3HuiwSGokuY7pAirWuf8ot -

*Vivek Raghavan* https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fvivek-raghavan-16005424%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw35TifCjeoMamXLc7civ4Zg -

*Shouvik Guha* https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nujs.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fdr-shouvik-kumar-guha%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1P1Px6L5qTvrNB54SB3YnN -

*Ashutosh Modi* https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fashutosh-modi.github.io%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3o3JbbhzxDsanMvSooyZMc

Please reach out to the organizers at: legalaieval@gmail.com

Thank you,

Ashutosh

--------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ashutosh Modi Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) W: https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/ashutoshm/