Mining Legal Arguments in Court Decisions. (arXiv:2208.06178v1 [cs.CL])

Identifying, classifying, and analyzing arguments in legal discourse has been
a prominent area of research since the inception of the argument mining field.
However, there has been a major discrepancy between the way natural language
processing (NLP) researchers model and annotate arguments in court decisions
and the way legal experts understand and analyze legal argumentation. While
computational approaches typically simplify arguments into generic premises and
claims, arguments in legal research usually exhibit a rich typology that is
important for gaining …

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