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    <abstract>Models based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) produce state of the art (SOTA) results on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as named entity recognition (NER), part-of-speech (POS) tagging etc. An interesting phenomenon occurs when classifying long documents such as those from the US supreme court where BERT-based models can be considered difficult to use on a first-pass or out-of-the-box basis. In this paper, we experiment with several BERT-based classification techniques for US supreme court decisions or supreme court database (SCDB) and compare them with the previous SOTA results. We then compare our results specifically with SOTA models for long documents. We compare our results for two classification tasks: (1) a broad classification task with 15 categories and (2) a fine-grained classification task with 279 categories. Our best result produces an accuracy of 80% on the 15 broad categories and 60% on the fine-grained 279 categories which marks an improvement of 8% and 28% respectively from previously reported SOTA results.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Classification of US Supreme Court Cases Using BERT-Based Techniques
%A Vatsal, Shubham
%A Meyers, Adam
%A Ortega, John E.
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
%Y Angelova, Galia
%S Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
%D 2023
%8 September
%I INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
%C Varna, Bulgaria
%F vatsal-etal-2023-classification
%X Models based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) produce state of the art (SOTA) results on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as named entity recognition (NER), part-of-speech (POS) tagging etc. An interesting phenomenon occurs when classifying long documents such as those from the US supreme court where BERT-based models can be considered difficult to use on a first-pass or out-of-the-box basis. In this paper, we experiment with several BERT-based classification techniques for US supreme court decisions or supreme court database (SCDB) and compare them with the previous SOTA results. We then compare our results specifically with SOTA models for long documents. We compare our results for two classification tasks: (1) a broad classification task with 15 categories and (2) a fine-grained classification task with 279 categories. Our best result produces an accuracy of 80% on the 15 broad categories and 60% on the fine-grained 279 categories which marks an improvement of 8% and 28% respectively from previously reported SOTA results.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.ranlp-1.128
%P 1207-1215

Markdown (Informal)

[Classification of US Supreme Court Cases Using BERT-Based Techniques](https://aclanthology.org/2023.ranlp-1.128) (Vatsal et al., RANLP 2023)

• Classification of US Supreme Court Cases Using BERT-Based Techniques (Vatsal et al., RANLP 2023)

ACL

• Shubham Vatsal, Adam Meyers, and John E. Ortega. 2023. Classification of US Supreme Court Cases Using BERT-Based Techniques. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pages 1207–1215, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.