Current legal outcome prediction models - a staple of legal NLP - do not
explain their reasoning. However, to employ these models in the real world,
human legal actors need to be able to understand their decision
我们提出了一种名为 PILOT(PredictIng Legal case OuTcome)的新模型,用于案例结果预测。该模型由相关案例检索和时间模式处理两个模块组成,通过对大规模案例数据库进行实验,我们展示了准确识别先例案例和缓解时间转移对案例法预测的重要性,并显示出显著改进,超过之前专注于民事案件结果预测的方法。