In plain words: Rather than one total prison term, it predicts a term for each crime charged, picking the details that matter for that crime. It beat the usual single-total approach on a new set of cases, and the per-crime breakdown makes the total easier to explain.
Abstract
Judgment prediction for legal cases has attracted much research efforts for its practice use, of which the ultimate goal is prison term prediction. While existing work merely predicts the total prison term, in reality a defendant is often charged with multiple crimes. In this paper, we argue that charge-based prison term prediction (CPTP) not only better fits realistic needs, but also makes the total prison term prediction more accurate and interpretable. We collect the first large-scale structured data for CPTP and evaluate several competitive baselines. Based on the observation that fine-grained feature selection is the key to achieving good performance, we propose the Deep Gating Network (DGN) for charge-specific feature selection and aggregation. Experiments show that DGN achieves the state-of-the-art performance.
Huajie Chen, Deng Cai, Wei Dai, Zehui Dai, Yadong Ding
arXiv:1908.11521 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Aug 30, 2019
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