Cross-lingual Annotation Projection in Legal Texts

Abstract

We study annotation projection in text classification problems where source documents are published in multiple languages and may not be an exact translation of one another. In particular, we focus on the detection of unfair clauses in privacy policies and terms of service. We present the first English-German parallel asymmetric corpus for the task at hand. We study and compare several language-agnostic sentence-level projection methods. Our results indicate that a combination of word embeddings and dynamic time warping performs best.

Publication
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Andrea Galassi
Andrea Galassi
Junior Assistant Professor

He is an expert in deep learning architectures for natural language processing.

Marco Lippi
Marco Lippi
Associate Professor

He is an expert in machine learning and deep learning, with applications in many domains including natural language processing.

Paolo Torroni
Paolo Torroni
Associate Professor

Head of the Language Technologies lab. His main research focus is in artificial intelligence, and in particular natural language processing, multi-agent systems, and computational logics.