Publications

Refereed Conferences (Papers)

[C6] Abhinav Joshi, Shounak Paul, Akshat Sharma, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh, Ashutosh Modi. 2024. "IL-TUR: Benchmark for Indian Legal Text Understanding and Reasoning". Accepted for publication at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)


[C5] Shounak Paul, Rajas Bhatt, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2024. "Legal Statute Identification: A Case Study using State-of-the-Art Datasets and Methods". Accepted for publication at the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)


[C4] Shounak Paul, Arpan Mandal, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2023. "Pre-trained Language Models for the Legal Domain: A Case Study on Indian Law". In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL)

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[C3] Shounak Paul, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2022. "LeSICiN: A Heterogeneous Graph-Based Approach for Automatic Legal Statute Identification from Indian Legal Documents". In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). [PAPER][CODE][DATASET]

[C2] Shounak Paul, Pawan Goyal, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2020. "Automatic Charge Identification from Facts: A Few Sentence-Level Charge Annotations is All You Need". In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).     [PAPER][CODE]

[C1] Paheli Bhattacharya, Shounak Paul, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh, Adam Wyner. 2019. "Identification of Rhetorical Roles of Sentences in Indian Legal Judgments". In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX). !Best Paper Award! [PAPER][CODE]

Refereed Conferences (Tutorials)

[T2] Debasis Ganguly, Jack G. Conrad, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh, Pawan Goyal, Paheli Bhattacharya, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Shounak Paul. 2023. "Legal IR and NLP: the History, Challenges, and State-of-the-Art". Tutorial at the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). [PAPER][MATERIALS]

[T1] Jack Conrad, Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri, Shounak Paul, Saptarshi Ghosh. 2023. "AI & Law: Formative Developments, State-of-the-Art Approaches, Challenges & Opportunities". Tutorial at the 6th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CODS-COMAD). [PAPER][MATERIALS]

Refereed Journals

[J1] Paheli Bhattacharya, Shounak Paul, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh, Adam Wyner. 2021. "DeepRhole: deep learning for rhetorical role labeling of sentences in legal case documents". In Volume 31 of Artificial Intelligence and Law (Artif. Intell Law 2021).     [PAPER]