The SPLeT-2012 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts

The 4th Workshop on "Semantic Processing of Legal Texts" (SPLeT-2012) presents the first multilingual shared task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts. In this paper, we define the general task and its internal organization into sub-tasks, describe the datasets and the domain-specific linguistic peculiarities characterizing them. We finally report the results achieved by the participating systems, describe the underlying approaches and provide a first analysis of the final test results.