<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>We invite you to participate in SemEval-2023 Task 6: LegalEval: Understanding Legal Texts</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><b>Task Website: </b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/legaleval/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/legaleval/  </a><br><b>Registration: </b><a href="https://forms.gle/uoeRrqjcYLnae5Ls6" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/uoeRrqjcYLnae5Ls6</a> <b><br></b></p><br>In populous countries (e.g., India), pending legal cases have grown exponentially. Due to the nature of the legal domain, it may not be possible to automate the entire judicial pipeline completely; nevertheless, many intermediate tasks can be automated to augment legal practitioners and hence expedite the system. However, legal texts are different from commonly occurring texts typically used to train NLP models which make it difficult to apply existing NLP models and techniques directly, which calls for the development of legal domain-specific techniques. We are proposing 3 shared subtasks which will act as building blocks in developing legal AI applications:<br><br>(A) Rhetorical Roles (RR): Structuring unstructured legal documents into semantically coherent units<br>(B) Legal Named Entity Recognition (L-NER): Identifying relevant entities in a legal document<br>(C) Court Judgement Prediction with Explanation (CJPE): Predicting the outcome of a case along with an explanation<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Participants can take part in one or more subtasks.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><b>Shared task schedule:</b></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Training data ready: September 1, 2022</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Evaluation data ready: December 15, 2022</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Evaluation start: January 10, 2023</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Evaluation end: by January 31, 2023</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">System description paper submissions due: February 23, 2023</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification to authors: March 31, 2023</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><b>Task organizers</b></p><ul style="margin-bottom:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fprathamesh-kalamkar-16282521%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1i4MbIKNaX9b62qF465jQI" target="_blank"><b>Prathamesh Kalamkar </b></a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Saurabh&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3hKUxrLSWXXNOSnJSiG6qA" target="_blank"><b>Saurabh Karn</b></a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Smita&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0A_34Lo2uZYLvK3rAFPbvx" target="_blank"><b>Smita Gupta </b></a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fagami.in%2Fabout%2F%23Sachin&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3HuiwSGokuY7pAirWuf8ot" target="_blank"><b>Sachin Malhan</b></a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fvivek-raghavan-16005424%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw35TifCjeoMamXLc7civ4Zg" target="_blank"><b>Vivek Raghavan</b></a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nujs.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fdr-shouvik-kumar-guha%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1P1Px6L5qTvrNB54SB3YnN" target="_blank"><b>Shouvik Guha</b></a></span><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b> </b></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15pt"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;padding:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="color:rgb(152,0,0);font-family:"Arial";font-size:10pt;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fashutosh-modi.github.io%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3o3JbbhzxDsanMvSooyZMc" target="_blank"><b>Ashutosh Modi</b></a></span></p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>Please reach out to the organizers at: <a href="mailto:legalaieval@gmail.com" target="_blank">legalaieval@gmail.com</a>  <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ashutosh</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p>---------------------------------------------------------<br>Dr. Ashutosh Modi<br>Assistant Professor<br>Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)<br>Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK)<br>W: <a href="https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/ashutoshm/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/ashutoshm/</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></p></div></div>