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Recognizing cited facts and principles in legal judgements

Olga Shulayeva, Advaith Siddharthan, Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 107 - 126

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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Abstract

In common law, lawyers cite facts and legal principles from precedent cases for their arguments in support of their current case. Such facts and principles must be identified, though this is a highly time intensive task. We demonstrate that human annotators can agreement on which sentences are facts...

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Published in: Artificial Intelligence and Law
ISSN: 0924-8463 1572-8382
Published: Springer 2017
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40674
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Abstract: In common law, lawyers cite facts and legal principles from precedent cases for their arguments in support of their current case. Such facts and principles must be identified, though this is a highly time intensive task. We demonstrate that human annotators can agreement on which sentences are facts or principles. A supervised machine learning framework can automatically annotate sentences containing such legal facts and principles based on linguistic features, reporting precision and recall figures of between 0.79 and 0.89 using a Bayesian classifier.
Keywords: law, machine learning, legal facts, legal principles, corpus
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 1
Start Page: 107
End Page: 126