Plain English Summarization of Contracts

Please cite our NAACL NLLP Workshop paper as:

@inproceedings{manor-li-2019-plain,
    title = "Plain {E}nglish Summarization of Contracts",
    author = "Manor, Laura  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2019",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-2201",
    pages = "1--11",
}

Files

• all_v1.json: 446 sets from both websites
• tldrlegal_v1.json: 84 sets from https://tldrlegal.com
• tosdr_annotated_v1.json: 84 sets from https://tosdr.org/

Data

This dataset consists of the data included in the quantitative analysis as described in the paper. Sets which had a reference summary with more tokens than the original text are excluded. Each set consists of:

• uid: unique identification string
• original_text: cleaned & parsed original text
• reference_summary: cleaned & parsed reference summary
• doc: name of the document which the original text is from

TL;DRLegal

Each tldrlegal set may also have:

• title: "title" of the set (from website)

TOS;DR

Each tos;dr set may also have:

• note: Mostly empty, a space for additional notes from the annotator
• urls: URL of the respective company
• case_text: raw text from the "case" (from website)
• case_code: annotation for "case" text
• title_text: raw text from the "title" (from website)
• title_code: annotation for "title" text
• tldr_text: raw text from the "tldr" (from website)
• tldr_code: annotation for "tldr"

A note on annotation:

• Each code begins with a number, which is the 'ranking' of the quality of the respective text as chosen by the annotator
• A code may also have a letter, which stands for:
  • s: standard -- this exact text (without company names) occurs at least one other time in a different set.
  • j: jurisdication -- this text deals with jurisdiction
  • q-: quote(-) -- this text is excerpt of the original text
  • d: description -- this text is a description of what the original text talks about, but may not give details