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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) VerbCL: A Dataset of Verbatim Quotes for Highlight Extraction in Case Law

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This paper presents a new dataset that consists of the citation graph of court opinions, which cite previously published court opinions in support of their arguments, and focuses on the verbatim quotes, i.e., where the text of the original opinion is directly reused.

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