
Predicting case outcomes is useful for legal professionals to understand case law, file a lawsuit, raise a defense, or lodge appeals, for instance. However, it is very hard to predict legal decisions since this requires extracting valuable information from myriads of cases and other documents. Moreover, legal system complexity along with a huge volume of litigation make this problem even harder. This paper introduces an approach to predicting Brazilian court decisions, including whether they will be unanimous. Our methodology uses various machine learning algorithms, including classifiers and state-of-the-art Deep Learning models. We developed a working prototype whose F1-score performance is ~80.2% by using 4,043 cases from a Brazilian court. To our knowledge, this is the first study to present methods for predicting Brazilian court decision outcomes.
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Legal informatics, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Jurimetrics, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, QA75.5-76.95, Litigation prediction, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive algorithms, Electronic computers. Computer science, Law, Computation and Language (cs.CL), Legal outcome forecast
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Legal informatics, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Jurimetrics, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, QA75.5-76.95, Litigation prediction, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive algorithms, Electronic computers. Computer science, Law, Computation and Language (cs.CL), Legal outcome forecast
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