A dataset of merger agreements with rich expert annotations
Merger Agreement Understanding Dataset (MAUD) v1 is a corpus of 47,000+ labels in 152 merger agreements that have been manually labeled under the supervision of experienced lawyers to identify 92 questions in each agreement used by the 2021 American Bar Association (ABA) Public Target Deal Points Study.
MAUD is curated and maintained by The Atticus Project, Inc. to support NLP research and development in legal contract review.
• 47,000+ labels
• 152 contracts
• 92 questions
Dataset
Publication
MAUD: An Expert-Annotated Legal NLP Dataset for Merger Agreement Understanding
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Check out the code for replicating the results and the trained model here:
Contributors
Attorney Advisors
Wei Chen
Ravi Mahesh
Gordon Moodie
Andy Nussbaum
Mike O'Bryan
Rita-Anne O'Neill
Anne Beth Stebbins
Patricia Vella
Daisy Beckner
Daniel Belke
Brianna Bloodgood
Polina Demina
Jason Fruchter
Zach Gennett
Mara Goodman
Jenny Hochenberg
June Hu
Paul Hubble
Hannah Kang
Eugene Kim
Brad King
Chul Hun Lee
Jonas Marson
Charlotte May
John Mills
Tyler Rosenbaum
Nancy Rubin
Hallie Snyder Sacchetta
Michael Santos
Rachel Schlobohm
Julie Siegel
Victoria Smallwood
Kirby Smith
Susie Toumanian
Rob Townsend
Tomi Williams
Mimi Wu
Jason Zhang
Student Leaders
Florian Bachmann
Warren Claiborne
Maddy Cole
Kayla Fedler
Dimitry Levkin
Arianne Marcellin-Little
David Meyers
Catherine Sakurai
Will Serio
Simran Virdi
Colton Walker
Student Contributors
Misha Aganin
Nikki Agrawal
Adam Arbonies
Logan Boyle
Paola Zaragoza Cardenales
Angel Cervantes
Aidan Chen
Haruto Cheng
Kern Chhikara
Blake Christie
Marie-Aime Cochet
Thomas Dana
Ali Darvish
Pascal Descollonges
Ali Ebshara
Isabella Gradney
Bochen (Jerry) Zhang
Justin Fan
Elizabeth Kaiser
Jessica Li
Nicholas Lin
Annaliese Martis
Samantha Mita
Zhibiao Peng
Bryant Riveria
Laura Saitta
Willow Teter
Suzanne Truong
Ge You
Shelby Young
Qing (Kelly) Zhou
Technical Advisors & Contributors
Steven H. Wang
Dan Hendrycks
Thomas Woodside
Antoine Scardigli
Leonard Tang
Oliver Zhang
Anya Chen
Spencer Ball
Andrew Albor
Chris Cagampan
Catherine Hoang
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