learned_hands_business

Classify if a user post implicates legal isssues related to business.


Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 180

Legal reasoning type: Issue-spotting

Task type: Binary classification

Task description

This is a binary classification task in which the model must determine if a user’s legal question discusses issues faced by people who run small businesses or nonprofits, including around incorporation, licenses, taxes, regulations, and other concerns. It also includes options when there are disasters, bankruptcies, or other problems

Task construction

This task was constructed from the LearnedHands dataset. Please see their website for more information on annotation. Our task consists of a binarized version of the original dataset, with “negatives” randomly sampled from posts with other topics. This dataset is class balanced.