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“Steps” towards a corpus of SCOTUS opinions annotated using a Swalesian approach

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In the tradition of Moreno and Swales (2018), this paper presents the creation of a manually annotated resource for supporting teaching English for Legal Purposes (ELP) and for Natural Language Processing (NLP) purposes. After justifying the use of Supreme Court of the United States opinions, we define our coding scheme by adapting the move model of rhetorical structure in specialized discourse. We describe the methodology and the implementation of the annotation campaign. We analyze how our methodology and the resulting annotation scheme diverge from those described in the literature as well as the advantages that these divergences afford. In addition to the research article, we release several supplementary materials which aim to make the process transparent and serve other researchers aiming to annotate specialized discourse with the help of machine learning techniques.

Source: Ibérica

DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.50.45

Authors: Warren Bonnard, Mary Catherine Lavissière, Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez, Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux-Cachard

Institutions: Université de Lorraine, Centre de Recherche sur les Identités, les Nations et l'Interculturalité, Nantes Université

Language: English

Topic: Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Award: Lexhnology: joint linguistic and NLP discourse structure modeling of legal texts for language pedagogy