unfair_tos

Given a clause from a terms-of-service contract, determine the category the clause belongs to.

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Source: Claudette

License: CC by 4.0

Size (samples): 3850

Legal reasoning type: Interpretation

Task type: 8-way classification

Task description

The purpose of this task is classifying clauses in Terms of Service agreements. Clauses have been annotated by into nine categories: ['Arbitration', 'Unilateral change', 'Content removal', 'Jurisdiction', 'Choice of law', 'Limitation of liability', 'Unilateral termination', 'Contract by using', 'Other']. The first eight categories correspond to clauses that would potentially be deemed potentially unfair. The last category (Other) corresponds to clauses in agreements which don’t fit into these categories. A description of the precise annotation guidelines can be found in the original paper.

Task construction

Our data is composed of clauses from the validation and test split of LexGlue version of this task. We removed all clauses for which multiple annotations were available.

Citation information

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

@article{lippi2019claudette,
  title={CLAUDETTE: an automated detector of potentially unfair clauses in online terms of service},
  author={Lippi, Marco and Pa{\l}ka, Przemys{\l}aw and Contissa, Giuseppe and Lagioia, Francesca and Micklitz, Hans-Wolfgang and Sartor, Giovanni and Torroni, Paolo},
  journal={Artificial Intelligence and Law},
  volume={27},
  pages={117--139},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Springer}
}