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Answering legal questions from laymen in German civil law system: Data and code

This repository is part of the 2024 published EACL Paper "Answering legal questions from laymen in German civil law system" by Marius Büttner and Prof Dr. Ivan Habernal.

Data Usage and Copyright Notice

This repository contains data that has been collected exclusively from publicly accessible websites. The process of data collection was conducted with respect to the websites' terms of use and is intended for educational and scientific research purposes only.

Disclaimer: We do not claim ownership or hold any copyrights over the data provided herein. All data remains the property of their respective owners. The data shared in this repository is offered without any warranties, and users are solely responsible for its use.

Usage Restrictions: The data hosted in this repository is strictly for non-commercial, scientific research purposes. Any use of this data for commercial purposes is expressly prohibited.

Repository setup:

Python files and to what parts of the paper they belong:

Data scraping

Retrieving relevant paragraphs (document retrieval)

answer generation

Data and datasets:

Files in the data subfolder:

Requirements

How to run

Accessing the results of the scripts