Multi-Defendant Legal Judgment Prediction via Hierarchical Reasoning (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Yougang Lyu, Jitai Hao, Zihan Wang, Kai Zhao, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Fang Wang, Zhaochun Ren
| Challenge: | Existing methods for predicting judgment results for multiple defendants are ineffective. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to predict the judgment results for each defendant in multi-defendant cases . they formalize the multi-diffendant judgment process as hierarchical reasoning chains . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can predict the judgment results for multiple defendants in multi-defendant cases. |
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