Massimo Zancanaro


2024

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Annotation and Classification of Relevant Clauses in Terms-and-Conditions Contracts
Pietro Giovanni Bizzaro | Elena Della Valentina | Maurizio Napolitano | Nadia Mana | Massimo Zancanaro
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

In this paper, we propose a new annotation scheme to classify different types of clauses in Terms-and-Conditions contracts with the ultimate goal of supporting legal experts to quickly identify and assess problematic issues in this type of legal documents. To this end, we built a small corpus of Terms-and-Conditions contracts and finalized an annotation scheme of 14 categories, eventually reaching an inter-annotator agreement of 0.92. Then, for 11 of them, we experimented with binary classification tasks using few-shot prompting with a multilingual T5 and two fine-tuned versions of two BERT-based LLMs for Italian. Our experiments showed the feasibility of automatic classification of our categories by reaching accuracies ranging from .79 to .95 on validation tasks.

2003

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Generation of Video Documentaries from Discourse Structures
Cesare Rocchi | Massimo Zancanaro
Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG-2003) at EACL 2003

1999

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Positing and resolving bridging anaphora in deverba! NPs
Elena Not | Lucia M. Tovena | Massimo Zancanaro
The Relation of Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference