cuad_competitive_restriction_exception

Classify if the clause mentions exceptions or carveouts to Non-Compete, Exclusivity and No-Solicit of Customers.

Size (samples): 226

Legal reasoning type: Interpretation

Task type: Binary classification

Task description

This is a binary classification task in which the model must determine if a contractual clause falls under the category of “Competitive Restriction Exception”.

Task construction

This task was constructed from the CUAD dataset, which annotated clauses in 500 contracts according to 41 types. Positive samples for this task correspond to clauses for which annotators answered the following question in the affirmative:

Does the clause mention exceptions or carveouts to Non-Compete, Exclusivity and No-Solicit of Customers?

Negative samples are randomly selected from other clauses.

Citation information

If you use this dataset, we ask that you also cite to the source of the data as well.

@article{hendrycks2021cuad,
  title={Cuad: An expert-annotated nlp dataset for legal contract review},
  author={Hendrycks, Dan and Burns, Collin and Chen, Anya and Ball, Spencer},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06268},
  year={2021}
}