Automated Refugee Case Analysis: An NLP Pipeline for Supporting Legal Practitioners

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15533v1
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 19:37:23 GMT
• Title: Automated Refugee Case Analysis: An NLP Pipeline for Supporting Legal Practitioners
• Authors: Claire Barale, Michael Rovatsos, Nehal Bhuta
• Abstract summary: We introduce an end-to-end pipeline for retrieving, processing, and extracting targeted information from legal cases. We investigate an under-studied legal domain with a case study on refugee law in Canada.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end pipeline for retrieving, processing, and extracting targeted information from legal cases. We investigate an under-studied legal domain with a case study on refugee law in Canada. Searching case law for past similar cases is a key part of legal work for both lawyers and judges, the potential end-users of our prototype. While traditional named-entity recognition labels such as dates provide meaningful information in legal work, we propose to extend existing models and retrieve a total of 19 useful categories of items from refugee cases. After creating a novel data set of cases, we perform information extraction based on state-of-the-art neural named-entity recognition (NER). We test different architectures including two transformer models, using contextual and non-contextual embeddings, and compare general purpose versus domain-specific pre-training. The results demonstrate that models pre-trained on legal data perform best despite their smaller size, suggesting that domain matching had a larger effect than network architecture. We achieve a F1 score above 90% on five of the targeted categories and over 80% on four further categories.

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