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+In this dataset, we present a dataset of 2944 legal references in German law that are manually annotated by law experts. This dataset has 21 properties for each law reference in the dataset, such as _Buch_, _Teil_, _Titel_, _Untertitel_, etc. It also provides the complete text of each law reference in the dataset, along with specific paragraph text mentioned in the law reference.
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+Paper: [A Dataset of German Legal Reference Annotations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=c5KToK8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=c5KToK8AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC)
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+Please reference our work when using this dataset:
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+```tex
+@article{darji2023dataset,
+  title={A Dataset of German Legal Reference Annotations},
+  author={Darji, Harshil and Mitrovi{\'c}, Jelena and Granitzer, Michael},
+  year={2023}
+}
+```