2021

Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark

Niklaus, Joel, Chalkidis, Ilias, Stürmer, Matthias

Understand

In many jurisdictions, the excessive workload of courts leads to high delays.

  • Suitable predictive AI models can assist legal professionals in their work, and thus enhance and speed up the process.
  • So far, Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) datasets have been released in English, French, and Chinese.
  • We publicly release a multilingual (German, French, and Italian), diachronic (2000-2020) corpus of 85K cases from the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (FSCS).

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