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# Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 — accepted papers

Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 is the 2022 edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), December 2022 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 30 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid) · 🗓 December 2022

[**30** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2022/#works) · [**37** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2022/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Semantic Segmentation of Legal Documents via Rhetorical Roles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.13/)**Vijit Malik, Rishabh Sanjay, Shouvik Kumar Guha et al.*48 citations*
2. **[Named Entity Recognition in Indian court judgments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.15/)**Prathamesh Kalamkar, Astha Agarwal, Aman Tiwari et al.*46 citations*
3. **[E-NER –- An Annotated Named Entity Recognition Corpus of Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.22/)**Ting Wai Terence Au, Vasileios Lampos, Ingemar Cox*40 citations*
4. **[Processing Long Legal Documents with Pre-trained Transformers: Modding LegalBERT and Longformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.11/)**Dimitris Mamakas, Petros Tsotsi, Ion Androutsopoulos et al.*33 citations*
5. **[AraLegal-BERT: A pretrained language model for Arabic Legal text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2022-aralegal-bert-pretrained-language-model/)**Muhammad Al-qurishi, Sarah Alqaseemi, Riad Souissi*28 citations · our summary*
6. **[ClassActionPrediction: A Challenging Benchmark for Legal Judgment Prediction of Class Action Cases in the US ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.3/)**Gil Semo, Dor Bernsohn, Ben Hagag et al.*17 citations*
7. **[Text Simplification for Legal Domain: Insights and Challenges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.28/)**Aparna Garimella, Abhilasha Sancheti, Vinay Aggarwal et al.*16 citations*
8. **[A Legal Approach to Hate Speech – Operationalizing the EU's Legal Framework against the Expression of Hatred as an NLP Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.5/)**Frederike Zufall, Marius Hamacher, Katharina Kloppenborg et al.*12 citations*
9. **[Computing and Exploiting Document Structure to Improve Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Decisions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.30/)**Yang Zhong, Diane Litman*9 citations*
10. **[Privacy-Preserving Models for Legal Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.14/)**Ying Yin, Ivan Habernal*9 citations*

## All accepted papers (30)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Semantic Segmentation of Legal Documents via Rhetorical Roles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.13/)**Vijit Malik, Rishabh Sanjay, Shouvik Kumar Guha et al.*48 citations*
2. **[Named Entity Recognition in Indian court judgments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.15/)**Prathamesh Kalamkar, Astha Agarwal, Aman Tiwari et al.*46 citations*
3. **[E-NER –- An Annotated Named Entity Recognition Corpus of Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.22/)**Ting Wai Terence Au, Vasileios Lampos, Ingemar Cox*40 citations*
4. **[Processing Long Legal Documents with Pre-trained Transformers: Modding LegalBERT and Longformer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.11/)**Dimitris Mamakas, Petros Tsotsi, Ion Androutsopoulos et al.*33 citations*
5. **[AraLegal-BERT: A pretrained language model for Arabic Legal text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2022-aralegal-bert-pretrained-language-model/)**Muhammad Al-qurishi, Sarah Alqaseemi, Riad Souissi*28 citations · our summary*
6. **[ClassActionPrediction: A Challenging Benchmark for Legal Judgment Prediction of Class Action Cases in the US ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.3/)**Gil Semo, Dor Bernsohn, Ben Hagag et al.*17 citations*
7. **[Text Simplification for Legal Domain: Insights and Challenges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.28/)**Aparna Garimella, Abhilasha Sancheti, Vinay Aggarwal et al.*16 citations*
8. **[A Legal Approach to Hate Speech – Operationalizing the EU's Legal Framework against the Expression of Hatred as an NLP Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.5/)**Frederike Zufall, Marius Hamacher, Katharina Kloppenborg et al.*12 citations*
9. **[Computing and Exploiting Document Structure to Improve Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Decisions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.30/)**Yang Zhong, Diane Litman*9 citations*
10. **[Privacy-Preserving Models for Legal Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.14/)**Ying Yin, Ivan Habernal*9 citations*
11. **[Abstractive Summarization of Dutch Court Verdicts Using Sequence-to-sequence Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.7/)**Marijn Schraagen, Floris Bex, Nick Van De Luijtgaarden et al.*7 citations*
12. **[Automatic Classification of Legal Violations in Cookie Banner Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.27/)**Marieke Van Hofslot, Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Gatt et al.*7 citations*
13. **[Parameter-Efficient Legal Domain Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.10/)**Jonathan Li, Rohan Bhambhoria, Xiaodan Zhu*7 citations*
14. **[An Efficient Active Learning Pipeline for Legal Text Classification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.32/)**Sepideh Mamooler, Rémi Lebret, Stephane Massonnet et al.*6 citations*
15. **[Combining WordNet and Word Embeddings in Data Augmentation for Legal Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.4/)**Sezen Perçin, Andrea Galassi, Francesca Lagioia et al.*6 citations*
16. **[Efficient Deep Learning-based Sentence Boundary Detection in Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.18/)**Reshma Sheik, Gokul T, S Nirmala*6 citations*
17. **[Legal and Political Stance Detection of SCOTUS Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.25/)**Noah Bergam, Emily Allaway, Kathleen Mckeown*6 citations*
18. **[Legal Named Entity Recognition with Multi-Task Domain Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.29/)**Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu, Ion-Robert Dinică, Andrei-Marius Avram et al.*4 citations*
19. **[The Legal Argument Reasoning Task in Civil Procedure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.17/)**Leonard Bongard, Lena Held, Ivan Habernal*4 citations*
20. **[Towards Cross-Domain Transferability of Text Generation Models for Legal Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.9/)**Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Rashmi Gangadharaiah*4 citations*
21. **[Data-efficient end-to-end Information Extraction for Statistical Legal Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.12/)**Wonseok Hwang, Saehee Eom, Hanuhl Lee et al.*3 citations*
22. **[Detecting Relevant Differences Between Similar Legal Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.24/)**Xiang Li, Jiaxun Gao, Diana Inkpen et al.*2 citations*
23. **[Legal-Tech Open Diaries: Lesson learned on how to develop and deploy light-weight models in the era of humongous Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.8/)**Stelios Maroudas, Sotiris Legkas, Prodromos Malakasiotis et al.*2 citations*
24. **[On What it Means to Pay Your Fair Share: Towards Automatically Mapping Different Conceptions of Tax Justice in Legal Research Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.2/)**Reto Gubelmann, Peter Hongler, Elina Margadant et al.*2 citations*
25. **[Graph-based Keyword Planning for Legal Clause Generation from Topics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.nllp-1.26/)**Sagar Joshi, Sumanth Balaji, Aparna Garimella et al.*1 citation*

[See all 30 papers in Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2022/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (1)

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

1. **[AraLegal-BERT: A pretrained language model for Arabic Legal text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2022-aralegal-bert-pretrained-language-model/) [Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/)**Muhammad Al-qurishi, Sarah Alqaseemi, Riad Souissi*2022 · 37 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (1)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Muhammad AL-Qurishi**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-al-qurishi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Riad Souissi**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/)

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

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