Named Entity Recognition in Indian court judgments

Abstract

Identification of named entities from legal texts is an essential building block for developing other legal Artificial Intelligence applications. Named Entities in legal texts are slightly different and more fine-grained than commonly used named entities like Person, Organization, Location etc. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus of 46545 annotated legal named entities mapped to 14 legal entity types. The Baseline model for extracting legal named entities from judgment text is also developed. We publish the training, dev data and trained baseline model https://github.com/Legal-NLP-EkStep/legal_NER.