Text Classification and Prediction in the Legal Domain

Minh-Quoc Nghiem, Paul Baylis, André Freitas, Sophia Ananiadou


Abstract
We present a case study on the application of text classification and legal judgment prediction for flight compensation. We combine transformer-based classification models to classify responses from airlines and incorporate text data with other data types to predict a legal claim being successful. Our experimental evaluations show that our models achieve consistent and significant improvements over baselines and even outperformed human prediction when predicting a claim being successful. These models were integrated into an existing claim management system, providing substantial productivity gains for handling the case lifecycle, currently supporting several thousands of monthly processes.
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2022.lrec-1.504
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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4717–4722
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Minh-Quoc Nghiem, Paul Baylis, André Freitas, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2022. Text Classification and Prediction in the Legal Domain. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4717–4722, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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