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Iteratively Questioning and Answering for Interpretable Legal Judgment Prediction

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Zhong, Haoxi, Wang, Yuzhong, Tu, Cunchao, Zhang, Tianyang, Liu, Zhiyuan, Sun, Maosong·2020·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) aims to predict judgment results according to the facts of cases. In recent years, LJP has drawn increasing attention rapidly from both academia and the legal industry, as it can provide references for legal practitioners and is expected to promote judicial justice. However, the research to date usually suffers from the lack of interpretability, which may lead to ethical issues like inconsistent judgments or gender bias. In this paper, we present QAjudge, a model based on reinforcement learning to visualize the prediction process and give interpretable judgments. QAjudge follows two essential principles in legal systems across the world: Presumption of Innocence and Elemental Trial. During inference, a Question Net will select questions from the given set and an Answer Net will answer the question according to the fact description. Finally, a Predict Net will produce judgment results based on the answers. Reward functions are designed to minimize the number of questions asked. We conduct extensive experiments on several real-world datasets. Experimental results show that QAjudge can provide interpretable judgments while maintaining comparable performance with other state-of-the-art LJP models. The codes can be found from https://github.com/thunlp/QAjudge.

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Authors
Zhong, H., Wang, Y., Tu, C., Zhang, T., Liu, Z., & Sun, M.
Affiliations
Tsinghua University (CN)
Venue
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Published
2020-04-03
Volume
34
Issue
01
Pages
1250-1257
ISSN
  • 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-3468
OpenAlex
W2997429021
Cited by
113
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 3
FWCI
84.97
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61661146007, 61572273)
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC0831900)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Law › Artificial Intelligence in Law
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Social Sciences › Law › Legal processes and jurisprudence
Keywords
legal judgment prediction, interpretability, reinforcement learning, question answering, presumption of innocence, gender bias, judicial justice

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