HKJudge: A Legal Discourse-Annotated Corpus for Interpreting What Courts Find, How They Reason, and What They Rule

In three linesHKJudge is the first sentence-level expert-annotated legal discourse corpus. It contains ~290k sentences and ~6.5M tokens from Hong Kong criminal judgments across all court levels, annotated by legal linguistics experts. Two benchmark tasks: rhetorical role classification (26 categories) and legal element extraction. Evaluation on BERT models, open-source and commercial LLMs.

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