2025
LegalSeg: Unlocking the Structure of Indian Legal Judgments Through Rhetorical Role Classification
Shubham Kumar Nigam, Tanmay Dubey, Govind Sharma, Noel Shallum, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Arnab Bhattacharya
NAACL 2025findings
In this paper, we address the task of semantic segmentation of legal documents through rhetorical role classification, with a focus on Indian legal judgments. We introduce **LegalSeg**, the largest annotated dataset for this task, comprising over 7,000 documents and 1.4 million sentences, labeled wi…