Exploiting Machine Learning Models for Chinese Legal Documents Labeling, Case Classification, and Sentencing Prediction

Abstract

This paper exploits machine learning methods to separate robbery and intimidation cases, and predicting their sentencing by considering defined legal factors. We introduce a framework to fetch 21 legal factor labels of robbery and intimidation cases, then use the labels for case classification and sentencing prediction. Our experiments show that the legal factor labels can indeed improve the results of case classification and sentencing prediction. We then discuss the influence of these legal factors in both case classification and sentencing prediction tasks.