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# Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 — accepted papers

Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 24 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic · 🗓 November 2021

[**24** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2021/#works) · [**132** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2021/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niklaus-2021-swiss-judgment-prediction-multilingual-legal/)**Joel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer*55 citations · our summary*
2. **[Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.22/)**Nut Limsopatham*41 citations*
3. **[Named Entity Recognition in the Romanian Legal Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.2/)**Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Carol Luca Gasan et al.*35 citations*
4. **[JuriBERT: A Masked-Language Model Adaptation for French Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.9/)**Stella Douka, Hadi Abdine, Michalis Vazirgiannis et al.*31 citations*
5. **[A Free Format Legal Question Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.11/)**Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana Punuru, Chad Morris et al.*25 citations*
6. **[jurBERT: A Romanian BERT Model for Legal Judgement Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.8/)**Mihai Masala, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban et al.*25 citations*
7. **[Multi-granular Legal Topic Classification on Greek Legislation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.6/)**Christos Papaloukas, Ilias Chalkidis, Konstantinos Athinaios et al.*22 citations*
8. **[A Corpus for Multilingual Analysis of Online Terms of Service ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.1/)**Kasper Drawzeski, Andrea Galassi, Agnieszka Jablonowska et al.*16 citations*
9. **[GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.13/)**Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel*12 citations*
10. **[Named Entity Recognition in Historic Legal Text: A Transformer and State Machine Ensemble Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.18/)**Fernando Trias, Hongming Wang, Sylvain Jaume et al.*11 citations*

## All accepted papers (24)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niklaus-2021-swiss-judgment-prediction-multilingual-legal/)**Joel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer*55 citations · our summary*
2. **[Effectively Leveraging BERT for Legal Document Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.22/)**Nut Limsopatham*41 citations*
3. **[Named Entity Recognition in the Romanian Legal Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.2/)**Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Carol Luca Gasan et al.*35 citations*
4. **[JuriBERT: A Masked-Language Model Adaptation for French Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.9/)**Stella Douka, Hadi Abdine, Michalis Vazirgiannis et al.*31 citations*
5. **[A Free Format Legal Question Answering System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.11/)**Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana Punuru, Chad Morris et al.*25 citations*
6. **[jurBERT: A Romanian BERT Model for Legal Judgement Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.8/)**Mihai Masala, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ana Sabina Uban et al.*25 citations*
7. **[Multi-granular Legal Topic Classification on Greek Legislation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.6/)**Christos Papaloukas, Ilias Chalkidis, Konstantinos Athinaios et al.*22 citations*
8. **[A Corpus for Multilingual Analysis of Online Terms of Service ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.1/)**Kasper Drawzeski, Andrea Galassi, Agnieszka Jablonowska et al.*16 citations*
9. **[GerDaLIR: A German Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.13/)**Marco Wrzalik, Dirk Krechel*12 citations*
10. **[Named Entity Recognition in Historic Legal Text: A Transformer and State Machine Ensemble Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.18/)**Fernando Trias, Hongming Wang, Sylvain Jaume et al.*11 citations*
11. **[Summarization of German Court Rulings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.19/)**Ingo Glaser, Sebastian Moser, Florian Matthes*10 citations*
12. **[A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.5/)**Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie de Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries et al.*9 citations*
13. **[Searching for Legal Documents at Paragraph Level: Automating Label Generation and Use of an Extended Attention Mask for Boosting Neural Models of Semantic Similarity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.12/)**Li Tang, Simon Clematide*9 citations*
14. **[Capturing Logical Structure of Visually Structured Documents with Multimodal Transition Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.15/)**Yuta Koreeda, Christopher Manning*7 citations*
15. **[Few-shot and Zero-shot Approaches to Legal Text Classification: A Case Study in the Financial Sector ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.10/)**Rajdeep Sarkar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Jay Megaro et al.*6 citations*
16. **[Automatic Resolution of Domain Name Disputes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.24/)**Wayan Oger Vihikan, Meladel Mistica, Inbar Levy et al.*5 citations*
17. **[SPaR.txt, a Cheap Shallow Parsing Approach for Regulatory Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.14/)**Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray et al.*5 citations*
18. **[Automating Claim Construction in Patent Applications: The CMUmine Dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.21/)**Ozan Tonguz, Yiwei Qin, Yimeng Gu et al.*4 citations*
19. **[Learning from Limited Labels for Long Legal Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.20/)**Jenny Hong, Derek Chong, Christopher Manning*3 citations*
20. **[Legal Terminology Extraction with the Termolator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.16/)**Nhi Pham, Lachlan Pham, Adam L. Meyers*2 citations*
21. **[Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wenger-2021-automated-extraction-sentencing-decisions-court/)**Mohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Noga Berger et al.*1 citation · our summary*
22. **[Machine Extraction of Tax Laws from Legislative Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.7/)**Elliott Ash, Malka Guillot, Luyang Han*1 citation*
23. **[Semi-automatic Triage of Requests for Free Legal Assistance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.23/)**Meladel Mistica, Jey Han Lau, Brayden Merrifield et al.*1 citation*
24. **[Supervised Identification of Participant Slots in Contracts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.17/)**Dan Simonson

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niklaus-2021-swiss-judgment-prediction-multilingual-legal/) [Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/)**Joel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer*2021 · 129 citations*
2. [**Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language**Mohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Noga Berger, et al.*2021 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wenger-2021-automated-extraction-sentencing-decisions-court/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Legal AI (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Ilias Chalkidis**1 work here · 129 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilias-chalkidis/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joel Niklaus**1 work here · 129 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-niklaus/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthias Stürmer**1 work here · 129 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-sturmer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Gabriel Stanovsky**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-stanovsky/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**University of Bern** Bern · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bern/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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