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A Dataset of German Legal Documents for Named Entity Recognition

arXiv 2003.13016 ↗First posted 29 Mar 2020cs.CL cs.IRcited by 24

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We describe a dataset developed for Named Entity Recognition in German federal court decisions. It consists of approx. 67,000 sentences with over 2 million tokens. The resource contains 54,000 manually annotated entities, mapped to 19 fine-grained semantic classes: person, judge, lawyer, country, city, street, landscape, organization, company, institution, court, brand, law, ordinance, European legal norm, regulation, contract, court decision, and legal literature. The legal documents were, furthermore, automatically annotated with more than 35,000 TimeML-based time expressions. The dataset, which is available under a CC-BY 4.0 license in the CoNNL-2002 format, was developed for training an NER service for German legal documents in the EU project Lynx.

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  1. 2024Natural Language Processing for the Legal Domain: A Survey of Tasks, Datasets, Models, and Challengescited by 42
  2. 2022Named Entity Recognition in Indian court judgmentscited by 26
  3. 2024LegalLens: Leveraging LLMs for Legal Violation Identification in Unstructured Textcited by 12
  4. 2024Sebastian, Basti, Wastl?! Recognizing Named Entities in Bavarian Dialectal Datacited by 8
  5. 2023Exploring the Landscape of Natural Language Processing Researchcited by 7
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  7. 2023Automatic Anonymization of Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rulingscited by 3
  8. 2025SynLexLM: Scaling Legal LLMs with Synthetic Data and Curriculum Learningcited by 3
  9. 2022Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Extracting Information from Registration and Legal Documentscited by 2
  10. 2022DeepParliament: A Legal domain Benchmark & Dataset for Parliament Bills Predictioncited by 2
  11. 2025Computational Law: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Ontologiescited by 2
  12. 2026ComplianceNLP: Knowledge-Graph-Augmented RAG for Multi-Framework Regulatory Gap Detectioncited by 2
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  2. 2023CDJUR-BR -- A Golden Collection of Legal Document from Brazilian Justice with Fine-Grained Named Entitiescited by 1
  3. 2026SinhaLegal: A Benchmark Corpus for Information Extraction and Analysis in Sinhala Legislative Textscited by 1
  4. 2021Optimizing small BERTs trained for German NERcited by 0
  5. 2025Summarisation of German Judgments in conjunction with a Class-based Evaluationcited by 0
  6. 2025Adversarial Demonstration Learning for Low-resource NER Using Dual Similaritycited by 0
  7. 2026A Two-Stage Architecture for NDA Analysis: LLM-based Segmentation and Transformer-based Clause Classificationcited by 0
  8. 2026The GELATO Dataset for Legislative NERcited by 0
  9. 2026Bundesrecht: An Open Library and Corpus for German Statutory Reference Processingcited by 0
  10. 2026ANNOTARES: A Dataset for Extracting Logical Structures from German Statutory Textscited by 0
  11. 2026Redakto - The Incognito Tab for LLMscited by 0
  12. 2026IntLawNER: A Named Entity Recognition Dataset and Benchmark in International Lawcited by 0