Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models with Sentence Position Embeddings for Rhetorical Roles Recognition in Legal Opinions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05276v1
• Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 20:33:55 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models with Sentence Position Embeddings for Rhetorical Roles Recognition in Legal Opinions
• Authors: Anas Belfathi, Nicolas Hernandez and Laura Monceaux
• Abstract summary: The size of legal opinions continues to grow, making it increasingly challenging to develop a model that can accurately predict the rhetorical roles of legal opinions. We propose a novel model architecture for automatically predicting rhetorical roles using pre-trained language models (PLMs) enhanced with knowledge of sentence position information. Based on an annotated corpus from the LegalEval@SemEval2023 competition, we demonstrate that our approach requires fewer parameters, resulting in lower computational costs.
• Score: 0.16385815610837165
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The legal domain is a vast and complex field that involves a considerable amount of text analysis, including laws, legal arguments, and legal opinions. Legal practitioners must analyze these texts to understand legal cases, research legal precedents, and prepare legal documents. The size of legal opinions continues to grow, making it increasingly challenging to develop a model that can accurately predict the rhetorical roles of legal opinions given their complexity and diversity. In this research paper, we propose a novel model architecture for automatically predicting rhetorical roles using pre-trained language models (PLMs) enhanced with knowledge of sentence position information within a document. Based on an annotated corpus from the LegalEval@SemEval2023 competition, we demonstrate that our approach requires fewer parameters, resulting in lower computational costs when compared to complex architectures employing a hierarchical model in a global-context, yet it achieves great performance. Moreover, we show that adding more attention to a hierarchical model based only on BERT in the local-context, along with incorporating sentence position information, enhances the results.

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