From Graph to Word Bag: Introducing Domain Knowledge to Confusing Charge Prediction
Ang Li, Qiangchao Chen, Yiquan Wu, Xiang Zhou, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu, Ming Cai
Abstract
Confusing charge prediction is a challenging task in legal AI, which involves predicting confusing charges based on fact descriptions. While existing charge prediction methods have shown impressive performance, they face significant challenges when dealing with confusing charges, such as Snatch and Robbery. In the legal domain, constituent elements play a pivotal role in distinguishing confusing charges. Constituent elements are fundamental behaviors underlying criminal punishment and have subtle distinctions among charges. In this paper, we introduce a novel From Graph to Word Bag (FWGB) approach, which introduces domain knowledge regarding constituent elements to guide the model in making judgments on confusing charges, much like a judge’s reasoning process. Specifically, we first construct a legal knowledge graph containing constituent elements to help select keywords for each charge, forming a word bag. Subsequently, to guide the model’s attention towards the differentiating information for each charge within the context, we expand the attention mechanism and introduce a new loss function with attention supervision through words in the word bag. We construct the confusing charges dataset from real-world judicial documents. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, especially in maintaining exceptional performance in imbalanced label distributions.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.659
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7469–7479
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.659
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ang Li, Qiangchao Chen, Yiquan Wu, Xiang Zhou, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu, and Ming Cai. 2024. From Graph to Word Bag: Introducing Domain Knowledge to Confusing Charge Prediction. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 7469–7479, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- From Graph to Word Bag: Introducing Domain Knowledge to Confusing Charge Prediction (Li et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.lrec-main.659.pdf