Critical Sentence Identification in Legal Cases Using Multi-Class Classification

@inproceedings{jayasinghe2021critical,
  title={{Critical Sentence Identification in Legal Cases Using Multi-Class Classification}},
  author={Jayasinghe, Sahan and Rambukkanage, Lakith and Silva, Ashan and de Silva, Nisansa and Perera, Amal Shehan},
  abstract={Inherently, the legal domain contains a vast amount of data in text format. Therefore it requires the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to cater to the analytically demanding needs of the domain. The advancement of NLP is spreading through various domains, such as the legal domain, in forms of practical applications and academic research. Identifying critical sentences, facts and arguments in a legal case is a tedious task for legal professionals. In this research we explore the usage of sentence embeddings for multi-class classification to identify critical sentences in a legal case, in the perspective of the main parties present in the case. In addition, a task-specific loss function is defined in order to improve the accuracy restricted by the straightforward use of categorical cross entropy loss.},
  misc={https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05721,NLP:ML:LAW,https://goo.gl/iY6aTr},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS)},
  pages={146--151},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ICIIS53135.2021.9660657}
}