A Multi-Source Heterogeneous Knowledge Injected Prompt Learning Method for Legal Charge Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02233v1
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 04:53:17 GMT
• Title: A Multi-Source Heterogeneous Knowledge Injected Prompt Learning Method for Legal Charge Prediction
• Authors: Jingyun Sun, Chi Wei, Yang Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose a prompt learning framework-based method for modeling case descriptions. We leverage multi-source external knowledge from a legal knowledge base, a conversational LLM, and legal articles. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results on CAIL-2018, the largest legal charge prediction dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Legal charge prediction, an essential task in legal AI, seeks to assign accurate charge labels to case descriptions, attracting significant recent interest. Existing methods primarily employ diverse neural network structures for modeling case descriptions directly, failing to effectively leverage multi-source external knowledge. We propose a prompt learning framework-based method that simultaneously leverages multi-source heterogeneous external knowledge from a legal knowledge base, a conversational LLM, and related legal articles. Specifically, we match knowledge snippets in case descriptions via the legal knowledge base and encapsulate them into the input through a hard prompt template. Additionally, we retrieve legal articles related to a given case description through contrastive learning, and then obtain factual elements within the case description through a conversational LLM. We fuse the embedding vectors of soft prompt tokens with the encoding vector of factual elements to achieve knowledge-enhanced model forward inference. Experimental results show that our method achieved state-of-the-art results on CAIL-2018, the largest legal charge prediction dataset, and our method has lower data dependency. Case studies also demonstrate our method's strong interpretability.

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