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</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">1st Call for Participation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">-------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A pilot track on Information Access in the Legal Domain</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">To be conducted at FIRE-2013</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">4 - 6 December 2013</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">, New Delhi, India</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/legal.html" target="_blank">http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/legal.html</a></div><div><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">-------------------</span><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The track is divided into two major tasks:</div><div><br></div><div>1) <b><u>Adhoc-retrieval from legal documents: </u></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>The task will focus on retrieval of legal documents relevant to a given situation. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Many forums are popping up each day where people ask for legal advice given a particular scenario. </div><div><br></div><div>e.g. I was driving from work to home last night when a car hit my bike. Though I was not injured my bike was damaged badly. Insurance company says I cannot claim insurance unless I file a F.I.R. But I do not want to get into legal mess. Is there a provision where I can claim an insurance without filing a F.I.R. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Currently these questions are answered by legal experts or other people who have at some point of time required the same advice.</div><div><br></div><div>The aim of this task is to automatically return documents that can answer such queries.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thinking of another another scenario. It can be a lawyer wanting to know precedents while defending his client. </div><div>e.g. Cases where an accused of hit-and-run charge was acquitted.</div><div><br>
</div><div>The aim of this task is to build a system that takes as input the required needs of a common man/expert and returns relevant legal documents.</div><div><br></div><div>This year we will be focusing only on the two most popular domains:</div>
<div>a) Consumer Law</div><div>b) Hindu Marriage and Divorce Laws</div><div><br></div><div>Corpus will consist of verdicts from various high courts and the supreme court of India, Indian constitution and various bills and acts of the Indian parliament.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>2) <span style="line-height:17px;text-align:justify;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px">Identification and Classification of Propositions in Court Judgments</span></u></b></div>
<div><br></div><div>This task is designed so as to facilitate task 1. But this year both of these are totally independent. In this task the participants take a legal document as input and the output will be a parsed document with each proposition segmented and annotated separately and classified into different categories.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The flow will be like below:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Break a given document into sentences (The task would not be as simple as identifying full stops to separate sentences as there maybe hyperlinks or abbreviations in the documents)</div>
<div>2) Identify if a sentence is composed of multiple propositions and break it down into individual propositions</div><div>3) Classify each of the propositions into one of the classes mentioned at <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/legal.html#Scheme" target="_blank">http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/legal.html#Scheme</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here proposition stands for a smallest part of the sentence that is meaningful (In most cases separating simple sentences from a given complex sentence will do the task)</div><div><br></div>
<div>For example if the given sentence is as below:</div><div><br></div><div>Some time in November 2012, the accused broke off the relationship, and became engaged to someone else.</div><div><br></div><div>the expected output is:</div>
<div><br></div><div>a. Sometime in November 2012 the accused broke off the relationship</div><div>b. and he became engaged to someone else</div><div><br></div><div>In order to simplify the task we have decided to allow participants to focus on either segmentation or classification.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For the segmentation part we will provide the participants with ~800 un-parsed documents which comprise of the past judgments of the Supreme court of India.</div><div>Apart from this we will provide a training set of ~20 parsed documents with each propositions segmented and annotated by legal experts.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>For task 2 the participants need to submit their systems which shall be evaluated by us on a test corpus.</div><div><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">------------------------------</span><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></u><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">-------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">20 September, 2013 Release of training corpus</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">20 October, 2013</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> Submission of working systems</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">15 Nov, 2013</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> Release of qrels (result notification)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">20 Nov, 2013</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> Working notes due</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">After joining the Group the participants can simply mail their doubts to <a href="mailto:legaltrack@googlegroups.com">legaltrack@googlegroups.com</a> </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">Alternately you can email the queries to:</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">Parth Mehta</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:parth.mehta126@gmail.com">parth.mehta126@gmail.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">Kripabandhu Ghosh</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:kripa.ghosh@gmail.com">kripa.ghosh@gmail.com</a></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify">Madhulika Agrawal</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:madhu1agrawal@gmail.com">madhu1agrawal@gmail.com</a></span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<div>Parth Mehta</div><div>DA-IICT</div>
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