Legal topic classification: A comparative study of text classifiers on Singapore Supreme Court judgments

This paper conducts a comparative study on the performance of various machine learning approaches for classifying judgments into legal areas. Using a novel dataset of 6,227 Singapore Supreme Court judgments, we investigate how state-of-the-art NLP methods compare against traditional statistical mode...

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Main Authors: SOH, Jerrold Tsin Howe, LIM, How Khang, CHAI, Ian Ernst
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3049
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5007&context=sol_research
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English