This work demonstrates that Legal Judgement Prediction systems without expert-informed adjustments can be vulnerable to shallow, distracting surface signals that arise from corpus construction, case distribution, and confounding factors. To mitigate this, we use domain expertise to strategically identify statistically predictive but legally irrelevant information. We adopt adversarial training to prevent the system from relying on it. We evaluate our deconfounded models by employing interpretability techniques and comparing to expert annotations. Quantitative experiments and qualitative analysis show that our deconfounded model consistently aligns better with expert rationales than baselines trained for prediction only. We further contribute a set of reference expert annotations to the validation and testing partitions of an existing benchmark dataset of European Court of Human Rights cases.

本文中，作者通过领域专家调整、采用对抗式训练以及解释性分析等手段，对司法判决预测系统的表层信号干扰问题进行了研究，在使用现有的基准数据集进行实验时，取得了比仅用于预测的基准模型更好的预测准确率。同时，作者贡献了一组专家注释结果。

针对欧洲人权法院案件进行法律判决预测的因素消除，以更好地与专家达成一致