LegalCore

Overview

This repository contains the code and datasets used in the paper:

"LegalCore: A Dataset for Event Coreference Resolution in Legal Documents"
Authors: Kangda Wei, Xi Shi, Jonathan Tong, Sai Ramana Reddy, Anandhavelu Natarajan, Rajiv Jain, Aparna Garimella, Ruihong Huang

Installation

To get started with LegalCore, clone the repository and install the required dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/WeiKangDa/LegalCore.git
cd LegalCore
pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: Ensure that you have Python 3.6 or higher installed.

Usage

To run LLMs evaluation, run the commands in ./script/batch_run.slurm, modify the parameters based on your need.

To run the supervised baseline, run the commands in ./script/supervised_detection.slurm for the event detection baseline. Run the commands in ./script/supervised_coreference.slurm for the event coreference baseline.

Project Structure

The repository is organized as follows:

LegalCore/
│
├── baseline/           # Core functionalities
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── ...
│
├── data/              # Raw and processed data
│   ├── raw_data/
│   └── ...
│
├── post_processing/   # Post-processing utilities
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── ...
│
├── pre_processing/    # Pre-processing tools
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── ...
│
├── script/            # Example scripts
│   └── ...
│
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt  # Python dependencies

Citation

If you use this work, please cite:

@misc{wei2025legalcoredatasetlegaldocuments,
      title={LegalCore: A Dataset for Legal Documents Event Coreference Resolution}, 
      author={Kangda Wei and Xi Shi and Jonathan Tong and Sai Ramana Reddy and Anandhavelu Natarajan and Rajiv Jain and Aparna Garimella and Ruihong Huang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.12509},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12509}, 
}

License

LegalCore is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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For questions, please open an issue or contact kangda@tamu.edu.