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The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Dataset for Legal AI Research

arXiv 2309.12269 ↗First posted 21 Sep 2023cs.CL cs.CY stat.APcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce the Cambridge Law Corpus (CLC), a dataset for legal AI research. It consists of over 250 000 court cases from the UK. Most cases are from the 21st century, but the corpus includes cases as old as the 16th century. This paper presents the first release of the corpus, containing the raw text and meta-data. Together with the corpus, we provide annotations on case outcomes for 638 cases, done by legal experts. Using our annotated data, we have trained and evaluated case outcome extraction with GPT-3, GPT-4 and RoBERTa models to provide benchmarks. We include an extensive legal and ethical discussion to address the potentially sensitive nature of this material. As a consequence, the corpus will only be released for research purposes under certain restrictions.

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  5. 2024The CLC-UKET Dataset: Benchmarking Case Outcome Prediction for the UK Employment Tribunalcited by 5
  6. 2024Topic Classification of Case Law Using a Large Language Model and a New Taxonomy for UK Law: AI Insights into Summary Judgmentcited by 3
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