A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19

Georgios Tziafas; Eugenie De Saint-Phalle; Wietse de Vries; Clara Egger; Tommaso Caselli

A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19

Georgios Tziafas, Eugenie De Saint-Phalle, Wietse de Vries, Clara Egger, Tommaso Caselli

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed the implementations of exceptional measures by governments across the world to counteract its impact. This work presents the initial results of an on-going project, EXCEPTIUS, aiming to automatically identify, classify and com- pare exceptional measures against COVID-19 across 32 countries in Europe. To this goal, we created a corpus of legal documents with sentence-level annotations of eight different classes of exceptional measures that are im- plemented across these countries. We evalu- ated multiple multi-label classifiers on a manu- ally annotated corpus at sentence level. The XLM-RoBERTa model achieves highest per- formance on this multilingual multi-label clas- sification task, with a macro-average F1 score of 59.8%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021
Editors	Nikolaos Aletras, Ion Androutsopoulos, Leslie Barrett, Catalina Goanta, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	46-62
Number of pages	17
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 - Duration: 10-Nov-2021 → … https://nllpw.org/workshop/

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Conference	Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021
Period	10/11/2021 → …
Internet address	https://nllpw.org/workshop/

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Caselli, T. (Contributor), Egger, C. (Contributor), Tziafas, G. (Contributor) & De Saint-Phalle, E. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 29-Nov-2021
DOI: 10.34894/zuwaps
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EXCEPTIUS Exceptional powers in time of Sars-CoV-2 crisis
Egger, C. (PI) & Aarts, K. (CoPI)
07/09/2020 → 06/09/2022
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Tziafas, G., De Saint-Phalle, E., de Vries, W., Egger, C., & Caselli, T. (2021). A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19. In N. Aletras, I. Androutsopoulos, L. Barrett, C. Goanta, & D. Preotiuc-Pietro (Eds.), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 (pp. 46-62). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Tziafas, Georgios ; De Saint-Phalle, Eugenie ; de Vries, Wietse et al. / A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19. Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021. editor / Nikolaos Aletras ; Ion Androutsopoulos ; Leslie Barrett ; Catalina Goanta ; Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. pp. 46-62

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Tziafas, G , De Saint-Phalle, E , de Vries, W, Egger, C & Caselli, T 2021, A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19. in N Aletras, I Androutsopoulos, L Barrett, C Goanta & D Preotiuc-Pietro (eds), Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 46-62, Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021, 10/11/2021.

A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19. / Tziafas, Georgios ; De Saint-Phalle, Eugenie ; de Vries, Wietse et al.
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021. ed. / Nikolaos Aletras; Ion Androutsopoulos; Leslie Barrett; Catalina Goanta; Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021. p. 46-62.

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