Introduction to Lawnotation Software – Annotating Legal Text
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Lawnotation is software that allows researchers to annotate (i.e., label or tag) texts and calculate whether the annotations of one annotator differ from those of another (interrater reliability). The output can be used to train machine learning models that automatically identify names, dates, references, legal concepts, or other things they were trained on. The software is open-source and free for researchers to use.
In this workshop, the software will be demonstrated. After the demonstration, participants can try out the software and start annotating!
The workshop will be provided by Gijs van Dijck. Gijs is a Professor of Private Law and heads the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, an interdisciplinary group of legal researchers and computer scientists who apply and reflect on data-driven analyses in relation to the law. Additionally, he is a Principal Investigator at the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS) and researcher at M-EPLI.
LEVEL: Basic
METHOD: Quantitative
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