 LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School  <img align="left" src="https://i.ibb.co/p3kQ7Rw/Screenshot-2020-10-06-at-12-16-36-PM.png" width="100"/>   LEGAL-BERT is a family of BERT models for the legal domain, intended to assist legal NLP research, computational law, and legal technology applications. To pre-train the different variations of LEGAL-BERT, we collected 12 GB of diverse English legal text from several fields (e.g., legislation, court cases,  contracts) scraped from publicly available resources. Sub-domain variants (CONTRACTS-, EURLEX-, ECHR-) and/or general LEGAL-BERT perform better than using BERT out of the box for domain-specific tasks.<br> This is the sub-domain variant pre-trained on ECHR cases. <br/><br/>  ---  I. Chalkidis, M. Fergadiotis, P. Malakasiotis, N. Aletras and I. Androutsopoulos. "LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School". In Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020) (Short Papers), to be held online, 2020. (https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.261)  ---  