Predicting Brazilian court decisions

A Lage-Freitas, H Allende-Cid, O Santana… - PeerJ Computer …, 2022 - peerj.com
Predicting case outcomes is useful for legal professionals to understand case law, file a
lawsuit, raise a defense, or lodge appeals, for instance. However, it is very hard to predict …

LA-MGFM: A legal judgment prediction method via sememe-enhanced graph neural networks and multi-graph fusion mechanism

Q Zhao, T Gao, N Guo - Information Processing & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) is a significant task of legal intelligence. Its
objective is to predict the relevant law articles, charges, and terms of penalty based on fact …

A statutory article retrieval dataset in French

A Louis, G Spanakis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11792, 2021 - arxiv.org
Statutory article retrieval is the task of automatically retrieving law articles relevant to a legal
question. While recent advances in natural language processing have sparked considerable …

Everything has a cause: Leveraging causal inference in legal text analysis

X Liu, D Yin, Y Feng, Y Wu, D Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09420, 2021 - arxiv.org
Causal inference is the process of capturing cause-effect relationship among variables. Most
existing works focus on dealing with structured data, while mining causal relationship …

Give me convenience and give her death: Who should decide what uses of NLP are appropriate, and on what basis?

K Leins, JH Lau, T Baldwin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13213, 2020 - arxiv.org
As part of growing NLP capabilities, coupled with an awareness of the ethical dimensions of
research, questions have been raised about whether particular datasets and tasks should …

Criminal action graph: a semantic representation model of judgement documents for legal charge prediction

G Feng, Y Qin, R Huang, Y Chen - Information Processing & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Semantic information in judgement documents has been an important source in Artificial
Intelligence and Law. Sequential representation is the traditional structure for analyzing …

Multi-granular legal topic classification on greek legislation

C Papaloukas, I Chalkidis, K Athinaios… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this work, we study the task of classifying legal texts written in the Greek language. We
introduce and make publicly available a novel dataset based on Greek legislation …

Learning to Initialize: Can Meta Learning Improve Cross-task Generalization in Prompt Tuning?

C Qin, Q Li, R Zhao, S Joty - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08143, 2023 - arxiv.org
Prompt tuning (PT) which only tunes the embeddings of an additional sequence of tokens
per task, keeping the pre-trained language model (PLM) frozen, has shown remarkable …

A survey on machine learning from few samples

J Lu, P Gong, J Ye, J Zhang, C Zhang - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The capability of learning and generalizing from very few samples successfully is a
noticeable demarcation separating artificial intelligence and human intelligence. Despite the …

Knowledge-enhanced model with dual-graph interaction for confusing legal charge prediction

S Bi, Z Ali, T Wu, G Qi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid development of natural language processing (NLP) technologies has enabled the
emergence of legal intelligence assistance systems, with legal charge prediction (LCP) …