Legal Argument Extraction from Court Judgements using Integer Linear Programming
Basit Ali,
Sachin Pawar,
Girish Palshikar
et al.
Abstract:Legal arguments are one of the key aspects of legal knowledge which are expressed in various ways in the unstructured text of court judgements. A large database of past legal arguments can be created by extracting arguments from court judgements, categorizing them, and storing them in a structured format. Such a database would be useful for suggesting suitable arguments for any new case. In this paper, we focus on extracting arguments from Indian Supreme Court judgements using minimal supervision. We first ide… Show more
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