Convolutional Neural Networks can achieve binary bail judgement classification

Amit Barman, Devangan Roy, Debapriya Paul, Indranil Dutta, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Samir Karmakar, Sudip Naskar


Abstract
There is an evident lack of implementation of Machine Learning (ML) in the legal domain in India, and any research that does take place in this domain is usually based on data from the higher courts of law and works with English data. The lower courts and data from the different regional languages of India are often overlooked. In this paper, we deploy a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture on a corpus of Hindi legal documents. We perform a bail Prediction task with the help of a CNN model and achieve an overall accuracy of 93% which is an improvement on the benchmark accuracy, set by Kapoor et al. (2022), albeit in data from 20 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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2023.icon-1.79
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Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2023
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Goa University, Goa, India
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Jyoti D. Pawar, Sobha Lalitha Devi
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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773–778
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Amit Barman, Devangan Roy, Debapriya Paul, Indranil Dutta, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Samir Karmakar, and Sudip Naskar. 2023. Convolutional Neural Networks can achieve binary bail judgement classification. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 773–778, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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