MultiLegalSBD: a multilingual legal sentence boundary detection dataset

T Brugger, M Stürmer, J Niklaus - Proceedings of the Nineteenth …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
T Brugger, M Stürmer, J Niklaus
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial …, 2023dl.acm.org
Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) is one of the foundational building blocks of Natural
Language Processing (NLP), with incorrectly split sentences heavily influencing the output
quality of downstream tasks. It is a challenging task for algorithms, especially in the legal
domain, considering the complex and different sentence structures used. In this work, we
curated a diverse multilingual legal dataset consisting of over 130'000 annotated sentences
in 6 languages. Our experimental results indicate that the performance of existing SBD …
Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) is one of the foundational building blocks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with incorrectly split sentences heavily influencing the output quality of downstream tasks. It is a challenging task for algorithms, especially in the legal domain, considering the complex and different sentence structures used. In this work, we curated a diverse multilingual legal dataset consisting of over 130'000 annotated sentences in 6 languages. Our experimental results indicate that the performance of existing SBD models is subpar on multilingual legal data. We trained and tested monolingual and multilingual models based on CRF, BiLSTM-CRF, and transformers, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance. We also show that our multilingual models outperform all baselines in the zero-shot setting on a Portuguese test set. To encourage further research and development by the community, we have made our dataset, models, and code publicly available.
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