Interpretable Charge Predictions for Criminal Cases: Learning to Generate Court Views from Fact Descriptions (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on court view generation from fact descriptions has improved the working efficiency of legal assistant systems. |
| Approach: | They propose to decode court views conditioned on encoded charge labels from the fact description in a criminal case to improve interpretability of charge prediction systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate court views conditioned on encoded charge labels. |
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