16 Legal Claim Identification : Information Extraction with Hierarchically Labeled Data

d We present a work-in-progress report of our research on automatically analyzing German court decisions. A description language for linguistic features in content zones of a court decision is introduced, developed to cover linguistic features of German court decisions. We motivated our research with significant text characteristics found in our corpus of private law decisions and show how we map these characteristics to elements of the description language. Finally, further research aspects are mentioned.

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