Annotating Topical Legal Insights from Case Proceedings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27792v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:24:48 GMT
• Title: Annotating Topical Legal Insights from Case Proceedings
• Abstract summary: We propose LeDA, a system for Legal Data.<n>The system offers the generic functionality of annotating and adjudicating entities or concepts within documents.<n>A novel feature of our system is that it allows to dynamic create new tags for annotation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we mainly concentrate on finding concepts or topics from the legal case proceedings, since adopting a structured representation for legal documents, as opposed to a mere bag-of-words flat text representation, can significantly enhance processing capabilities. To achieve this objective, we put forward a set of diverse concepts for legal case proceedings. With this motivation, we propose LeDA, a system for Legal Data Annotation. The system offers the generic functionality of annotating and adjudicating entities or concepts within documents via a web-based interface. A novel feature of our system is that it allows to dynamic create new tags for annotation, which is a particularly useful provision for situations where there exists no pre-defined ontology for the entities (concepts) that need to be annotated - these being rather discovered by annotators as they continue examining more documents. The system that we demonstrate is currently in use to annotate a set of concepts from legal documents to construct semantic representations of documents as bags of concepts that can then be used for several downstream tasks, such as prior case retrieval, judgment prediction, and so on. Along with the system features in general, we also describe how LeDA was used by 3 assessors to annotate and adjudicate legal concept names from Indian Supreme Court case proceedings.

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