Abstract
Automatic judgment prediction is a classic problem in legal intelligence, which aims to predict the relevant violated articles based on the fact descriptions. Generally, both semantics and relations of articles are valuable information to solve this problem. However, previous work usually threats this problem as a classification task while these two types of information are not well explored, which makes previously proposed methods less effective. In this paper, we design a novel Graph-Based Label Matching Network (GLAM for short) to address this issue. Specifically, GLAM first builds a heterogeneous graph to capture both semantics and correlations among articles. Based on this, a graph convolutional network is then utilized to learn robust article representations. Finally, a matching model is applied between article representations and fact representations to generate the matching score for judgment prediction. Experimental results on two real-world judicial datasets demonstrate that our model has more significant effect on judgement prediction than the state-of-the-art methods.
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This research work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61802029, and Open Project Funding of CAS-NDST Lab under Grant No. CASNDST202005.
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Fan, Y., Zhang, L., Wang, P. (2020). Leveraging Label Semantics and Correlations for Judgment Prediction. In: Dou, Z., Miao, Q., Lu, W., Mao, J., Jia, G. (eds) Information Retrieval. CCIR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56725-5_6
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