[Corpora-List] CFP: Information Access in Legal Domain at FIRE 2014

[Parth Mehta]

Apologies for cross posting

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Call for Participation

Information Access in the Legal Domain
To be conducted at FIRE 2014
5-7 December 2014, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/legal.html

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Task Definition:



* Legal documents by themselves always use a typical vocabulary and many
long and complex sentences which make them difficult to understand by
layman. A system that would summarise these documents and make them easily
readable to a common man, explaining the essence without dealing with the
nitigrities, would be of immense importance. Such a system can be very
useful in providing preliminary legal assistance to a common person, who
otherwise cannot understand the legal terminology that is usually used in
such documents. This system can be of equal assistance to lawyers or
paralegals and can save a lot of their time by providing precisely the
information that maybe of importance to them. *

*Summarization*


*Given a judgement from the Supreme court of India the task will be to
generate a summary that covers but is not limited to, outline of the case,
the acts and references to other cases used in the judgement and the final
verdict. These summaries will be compared against the summaries manually
written by legal experts, also known as the Headnotes of the cases. *


*This year we will focus only on single source summarization and generate a
separate summary for each individual case, irrespective of whether or not
it is similar to another case. Both abstractive and extractive
summarization would be considered valid. *

*For further details of datasets and submission format please visit the
website. *


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Important Dates
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*- *Training data release: 20 September (Released)
- Run Submission : 30 October
- Evaluation Result 10 November
- Working notes due: 20 November


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Contact
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Please subscribe to our google group at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/legaltrack

All important communication will be made through this mailing list only.

Queries can be posted in the mailing list, legaltrack at googlegroups.com or
mail to us at:

Madhulika Agrawal

* madhu1agrawal at gmail.com <madhu1agrawal at gmail.com> *

Parht Mehta
*parth.mehta126 at gmail.com <parth.mehta126 at gmail.com>*


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Regards,
Parth Mehta
DA-IICT
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