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Interpretable Charge Predictions for Criminal Cases: Learning to Generate Court Views from Fact Descriptions

23 Feb 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1802.08504archive 2025-07-28

Hai Ye, Xin Jiang, Zhunchen Luo, WenHan Chao

In this paper, we propose to study the problem of COURT VIEW GENeration from the fact description in a criminal case. The task aims to improve the interpretability of charge prediction systems and help automatic legal document generation. We formulate this task as a text-to-text natural language generation (NLG) problem. Sequenceto-sequence model has achieved cutting-edge performances in many NLG tasks. However, due to the non-distinctions of fact descriptions, it is hard for Seq2Seq model to generate charge-discriminative court views. In this work, we explore charge labels to tackle this issue. We propose a label-conditioned Seq2Seq model with attention for this problem, to decode court views conditioned on encoded charge labels. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our method.

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