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title = "Do Charge Prediction Models Learn Legal Theory?",
author = "An, Zhenwei and
Huang, Quzhe and
Jiang, Cong and
Feng, Yansong and
Zhao, Dongyan",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.275",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.275",
pages = "3757--3768",
abstract = "The charge prediction task aims to predict the charge for a case given its fact description. Recent models have already achieved impressive accuracy in this task, however, little is understood about the mechanisms they use to perform the judgment.For practical applications, a charge prediction model should conform to the certain legal theory in civil law countries, as under the framework of civil law, all cases are judged according to certain local legal theories. In China, for example, nearly all criminal judges make decisions based on the Four Elements Theory (FET).In this paper, we argue that trustworthy charge prediction models should take legal theories into consideration, and standing on prior studies in model interpretation, we propose three principles for trustworthy models should follow in this task, which are sensitive, selective, and presumption of innocence.We further design a new framework to evaluate whether existing charge prediction models learn legal theories. Our findings indicate that, while existing charge prediction models meet the selective principle on a benchmark dataset, most of them are still not sensitive enough and do not satisfy the presumption of innocence. Our code and dataset are released at \url{https://github.com/ZhenweiAn/EXP_LJP}.",
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%T Do Charge Prediction Models Learn Legal Theory?
%A An, Zhenwei
%A Huang, Quzhe
%A Jiang, Cong
%A Feng, Yansong
%A Zhao, Dongyan
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F an-etal-2022-charge
%X The charge prediction task aims to predict the charge for a case given its fact description. Recent models have already achieved impressive accuracy in this task, however, little is understood about the mechanisms they use to perform the judgment.For practical applications, a charge prediction model should conform to the certain legal theory in civil law countries, as under the framework of civil law, all cases are judged according to certain local legal theories. In China, for example, nearly all criminal judges make decisions based on the Four Elements Theory (FET).In this paper, we argue that trustworthy charge prediction models should take legal theories into consideration, and standing on prior studies in model interpretation, we propose three principles for trustworthy models should follow in this task, which are sensitive, selective, and presumption of innocence.We further design a new framework to evaluate whether existing charge prediction models learn legal theories. Our findings indicate that, while existing charge prediction models meet the selective principle on a benchmark dataset, most of them are still not sensitive enough and do not satisfy the presumption of innocence. Our code and dataset are released at https://github.com/ZhenweiAn/EXP_LJP.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.275
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%P 3757-3768
Markdown (Informal)
[Do Charge Prediction Models Learn Legal Theory?](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.275) (An et al., Findings 2022)
ACL
- Zhenwei An, Quzhe Huang, Cong Jiang, Yansong Feng, and Dongyan Zhao. 2022. Do Charge Prediction Models Learn Legal Theory?. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 3757–3768, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.