Discovering Significant Topics from Legal Decisions with Selective Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01068v1
• Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 07:00:24 GMT
• Title: Discovering Significant Topics from Legal Decisions with Selective Inference
• Authors: Jerrold Soh
• Abstract summary: We propose and evaluate an automated pipeline for discovering significant topics from legal decision texts. The method identifies case topics significantly correlated with outcomes, topic-word distributions and case-topic weights. We show that topics derived by the pipeline are consistent with legal doctrines in both areas and can be useful in other related legal analysis tasks.
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• Abstract: We propose and evaluate an automated pipeline for discovering significant topics from legal decision texts by passing features synthesized with topic models through penalised regressions and post-selection significance tests. The method identifies case topics significantly correlated with outcomes, topic-word distributions which can be manually-interpreted to gain insights about significant topics, and case-topic weights which can be used to identify representative cases for each topic. We demonstrate the method on a new dataset of domain name disputes and a canonical dataset of European Court of Human Rights violation cases. Topic models based on latent semantic analysis as well as language model embeddings are evaluated. We show that topics derived by the pipeline are consistent with legal doctrines in both areas and can be useful in other related legal analysis tasks.

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