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Predictive coding has been widely used in legal matters to find relevant or privileged documents in large sets of electronically stored information. It saves the time and cost significantly. Logistic Regression (LR) and Support Vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Fusheng Wei , Han Qin , Shi Ye , Haozhen Zhao

The Brazilian judiciary has a large workload, resulting in a long time to finish legal proceedings. Brazilian National Council of Justice has established in Resolution 469/2022 formal guidance for document and process digitalization opening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel da Silva Junior , Paulo Roberto dos S. Corval , Aline Paes , Daniel de Oliveira

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) has become an increasingly crucial task in Legal AI, i.e., predicting the judgment of the case in terms of case fact description. Precedents are the previous legal cases with similar facts, which are the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yiquan Wu , Siying Zhou , Yifei Liu , Weiming Lu , Xiaozhong Liu , Yating Zhang , Changlong Sun , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang

The escalating number of pending cases is a growing concern world-wide. Recent advancements in digitization have opened up possibilities for leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the processing of legal documents. Adopting a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Subinay Adhikary , Sagnik Das , Sagnik Saha , Procheta Sen , Dwaipayan Roy , Kripabandhu Ghosh

One of the principal tasks of machine learning with major applications is text classification. This paper focuses on the legal domain and, in particular, on the classification of lengthy legal documents. The main challenge that this study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Lulu Wan , George Papageorgiou , Michael Seddon , Mirko Bernardoni

Legal documents are unstructured, use legal jargon, and have considerable length, making them difficult to process automatically via conventional text processing techniques. A legal document processing system would benefit substantially if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Vijit Malik , Rishabh Sanjay , Shouvik Kumar Guha , Angshuman Hazarika , Shubham Nigam , Arnab Bhattacharya , Ashutosh Modi

Recent advances in deep learning have promoted the advent of many computational systems capable of performing intelligent actions that, until then, were restricted to the human intellect. In the particular case of human languages, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Rúben Almeida , Evelin Amorim

Legal disputes unfold through sequences of filings in which parties update their positions and may settle at any stage. Most computational studies of legal prediction, however, focus on adjudicated outcomes and treat cases as static objects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sandro Claudio Lera , Shahrokh Firouzi , Jonathan Habshush , Robert Mahari

Legal judgment prediction(LJP) is an essential task for legal AI. While prior methods studied on this topic in a pseudo setting by employing the judge-summarized case narrative as the input to predict the judgment, neglecting critical case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Luyao Ma , Yating Zhang , Tianyi Wang , Xiaozhong Liu , Wei Ye , Changlong Sun , Shikun Zhang

Research has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) can be effectively applied to text classification as part of a predictive coding protocol. That said, most research to date has been conducted on data sets with short documents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Robert Keeling , Rishi Chhatwal , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Jianping Zhang , Fusheng Wei , Haozhen Zhao , Shi Ye , Han Qin

The Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) is to determine judgment results based on the fact descriptions of the cases. LJP usually consists of multiple subtasks, such as applicable law articles prediction, charges prediction, and the term of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Wenmian Yang , Weijia Jia , XIaojie Zhou , Yutao Luo

Legal proceedings take plenty of time and also cost a lot. The lawyers have to do a lot of work in order to identify the different sections of prior cases and statutes. The paper tries to solve the first tasks in AILA2021 (Artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Arka Mitra

Deep learning has made significant progress in the past decade, and demonstrates potential to solve problems with extensive social impact. In high-stakes decision making areas such as law, experts often require interpretability for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Chu Fei Luo , Rohan Bhambhoria , Samuel Dahan , Xiaodan Zhu

Sentiment Analysis is one of the most classical and primarily studied natural language processing tasks. This problem had a notable advance with the proposition of more complex and scalable machine learning models. Despite this progress,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Frederico Souza , João Filho

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) is a pivotal task in legal AI. Existing semantic-enhanced LJP models integrate judicial precedents and legal knowledge for high performance. But they neglect legal reasoning logic, a critical component of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yue Zhang , Zhiliang Tian , Shicheng Zhou , Haiyang Wang , Wenqing Hou , Yuying Liu , Xuechen Zhao , Minlie Huang , Ye Wang , Bin Zhou

Text classification is a natural language processing (NLP) task relevant to many commercial applications, like e-commerce and customer service. Naturally, classifying such excerpts accurately often represents a challenge, due to intrinsic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Frederico Dias Souza , João Baptista de Oliveira e Souza Filho

In this article, we will present an NLP application in text classifying process using the content-based router. The ultimate goal throughout this article is to predict the event described by a legal ad from the plain text of the ad. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Tounsi Achraf , Elkefi Safa

State of the art machine learning algorithms are highly optimized to provide the optimal prediction possible, naturally resulting in complex models. While these models often outperform simpler more interpretable models by order of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-24 Yotam Hechtlinger

Our goal is procedural text comprehension, namely tracking how the properties of entities (e.g., their location) change with time given a procedural text (e.g., a paragraph about photosynthesis, a recipe). This task is challenging as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Xinya Du , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra , Niket Tandon , Antoine Bosselut , Wen-tau Yih , Peter Clark , Claire Cardie

US corporations regularly spend millions of dollars reviewing electronically-stored documents in legal matters. Recently, attorneys apply text classification to efficiently cull massive volumes of data to identify responsive documents for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Christian Mahoney , Peter Gronvall , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Jianping Zhang