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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.20
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108870
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10887/
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Gamallo, Pablo ; Martín-Rodilla, Patricia ; Calderón, Beatriz

Identifying Causal Relations in Legal Documents with Dependency Syntactic Analysis

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Abstract

This article describes a method for enriching a dependency-based parser with causal connectors. Our specific objective is to identify causal relationships between elementary discourse units in Spanish legal texts. For this purpose, the approach we follow is to search for specific discourse connectives which are taken as causal dependencies relating an effect event (head) with a verbal or nominal cause (dependent). As a result, we turn a specific syntactic parser into a discourse parser aimed at recognizing causal structures.

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@InProceedings{gamallo_et_al:OASIcs:2019:10887,
  author =	{Pablo Gamallo and Patricia Mart{\'\i}n-Rodilla and Beatriz Calder{\'o}n},
  title =	{{Identifying Causal Relations in Legal Documents with Dependency Syntactic Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:6},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Ricardo Rodrigues and Jan Janousek and Lu{\'\i}s Ferreira and Lu{\'\i}sa Coheur and Fernando Batista and Hugo Gon{\c{c}}alo Oliveira},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10887},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108870},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dependency Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Causal Markers, Legal Documents}
}

Keywords: Dependency Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Causal Markers, Legal Documents
Collection: 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 24.07.2019

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