Summary of Breaking the Manual Annotation Bottleneck: Creating a Comprehensive Legal Case Criticality Dataset Through Semi-automated Labeling, by Ronja Stern et al.
Breaking the Manual Annotation Bottleneck: Creating a Comprehensive Legal Case Criticality Dataset through Semi-Automated Labeling
by Ronja Stern, Ken Kawamura, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, Joel Niklaus
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces the Criticality Prediction dataset, a new resource for evaluating the potential influence of Swiss Federal Supreme Court decisions on future jurisprudence. The dataset features a two-tier labeling system that identifies cases published as Leading Decisions (LD) and ranks cases by their citation frequency and recency. This allows for a more nuanced evaluation of case importance. Several multilingual models, including fine-tuned variants and large language models, are evaluated, and results show that fine-tuned models consistently outperform zero-shot baselines. The need for task-specific adaptation is demonstrated. The paper’s contributions include the introduction of this task and the release of a multilingual dataset to the research community. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new tool to help lawyers understand which court decisions are most important. They made a big database with lots of information about these decisions, and then tested some computer models to see how well they could predict which decisions would be most influential in the future. The results show that special training for these models is needed to get accurate predictions. This new tool will help lawyers and researchers understand the impact of court decisions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Zero shot
