Rethinking the field of automatic prediction of court decisions

M Medvedeva, M Wieling, M Vols - Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we discuss previous research in automatic prediction of court decisions. We
define the difference between outcome identification, outcome-based judgement …

[HTML][HTML] Explainable AI tools for legal reasoning about cases: A study on the European Court of Human Rights

J Collenette, K Atkinson, T Bench-Capon - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we report on a significant research project undertaken to design, implement
and evaluate explainable decision-support tools for deciding legal cases. We provide a …

Legal judgment prediction: If you are going to do it, do it right

M Medvedeva, P Mcbride - Proceedings of the Natural Legal …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The field of Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) has witnessed significant growth in the
past decade, with over 100 papers published in the past three years alone. Our …

Thirty years of artificial intelligence and law: the third decade

S Villata, M Araszkiewicz, K Ashley… - Artificial Intelligence and …, 2022 - Springer
The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper
offers some commentaries on papers drawn from the Journal's third decade. They indicate a …

Zero-shot transfer of article-aware legal outcome classification for european court of human rights cases

TYS Santosh, O Ichim, M Grabmair - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00609, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we cast Legal Judgment Prediction on European Court of Human Rights cases
into an article-aware classification task, where the case outcome is classified from a …

On the relevance of algorithmic decision predictors for judicial decision making

F Bex, H Prakken - … of the eighteenth international conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we discuss case decision predictors, algorithms which, given some features of
a legal case predict the outcome of the case (ie the decision of the judge). We discuss …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic judgement forecasting for pending applications of the European Court of Human Rights

M Medvedeva, A Üstün, X Xu, M Vols… - Proceedings of the Fifth …, 2021 - research.rug.nl
Judicial decision classification using Natural Language Processing and machine learning
has received much attention in the last decade. While many studies claim to 'predict judicial …

Argument schemes for factor ascription

T Bench-Capon, K Atkinson - Computational Models of …, 2022 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Abstract Reasoning with legal cases by balancing factors (reasons to decide for and against
the disputing parties) is a two stage process: first the factors must be ascribed and then …

Sentag: A web-based tool for semantic annotation of textual documents

A Loreggia, S Mosco, A Zerbinati - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
In this work, we present SenTag, a lightweight web-based tool focused on semantic
annotation of textual documents. The platform allows multiple users to work on a corpus of …

Practical tools from formal models: the ECHR as a case study

K Atkinson, J Collenette, T Bench-Capon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
One approach to building legal support systems is to run an executable model of the
relevant knowledge through an interface designed to collect information from the user and …