Steno AI at SemEval-2023 Task 6: Rhetorical Role Labelling of Legal Documents using Transformers and Graph Neural Networks
Anshika Gupta, Shaz Furniturewala, Vijay Kumari, Yashvardhan Sharma · 2023
A legal document is usually long and dense requiring human effort to parse it.It also contains significant amounts of jargon which make deriving insights from it using existing models a poor approach.This paper presents the approaches undertaken to perform the task of rhetorical role labelling on Indian Court Judgements as part of SemEval Task 6: understanding legal texts, shared subtask A (Modi et al., 2023).We experiment with graph based approaches like Graph Convolutional Networks and Label Propagation Algorithm, and transformer-based approaches including variants of BERT to improve accuracy scores on text classification of complex legal documents.