LegalCore: A Dataset for Event Coreference Resolution in Legal Documents (2025.findings-acl)
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Kangda Wei, Xi Shi, Jonathan Tong, null Sai Ramana Reddy, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Rajiv Jain, Aparna Garimella, Ruihong Huang
| Challenge: | Existing research on event coreference resolution is limited to news articles . existing datasets for news articles are limited to events and coreferences . |
| Approach: | They present a dataset for the legal domain LegalCore which has been annotated with event and event coreference information. |
| Outcome: | The legal contract documents annotated in this dataset are several times longer than news articles, with an average length of around 25k tokens per document. |
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