TY  - CPAPER
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Josi, Frieda
A1  - Wartena, Christian
A1  - Heid, Ulrich
ED  - Barney Smith E.H., Elisa H.
ED  - Pal, Umapada
T1  - Representing Standard Text Formulations as Directed Graphs
T2  - Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12917
N2  - In order to ensure validity in legal texts like contracts and case law, lawyers rely on standardised formulations that are written carefully but also represent a kind of code with a meaning and function known to all legal experts. Using directed (acyclic) graphs to represent standardized text fragments, we are able to capture variations concerning time specifications, slight rephrasings, names, places and also OCR errors. We show how we can find such text fragments by sentence clustering, pattern detection and clustering patterns. To test the proposed methods, we use two corpora of German contracts and court decisions, specially compiled for this purpose. However, the entire process for representing standardised text fragments is language-agnostic. We analyze and compare both corpora and give an quantitative and qualitative analysis of the text fragments found and present a number of examples from both corpora.
KW  - Graph-based Text Representations
KW  - Legal Writings
KW  - Standardised formulation
KW  - Azyklischer gerichteter Graph
KW  - Sprachnorm
KW  - Sachtext
KW  - Rechtswissenschaften
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-20735
SN  - 0302-9743
SS  - 0302-9743
SN  - 978-3-030-86158-2
SB  - 978-3-030-86158-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2073
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2073
SP  - 475
EP  - 487
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -