LawStats – Large-scale German court decision evaluation using web service classifiers

• Main Authors: RUPPERT, Eugen, HARTUNG, Dirk, SITTIG, Phillip, GSCHWANDER, Tjorben, RÖNNEBURG, Lennart, KILLING, Tobias, BIEMANN, Chris
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Cognitive services; Faceted search; Law domain; Text classification; Web APIs; Internet Law; Science and Technology Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4525; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6483/viewcontent/472936_1_En_14_Chapter.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

LawStats provides quantitative insights into court decisions from the Bundesgerichtshof - Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Court of Justice in Germany. Using Watson Web Services and approaches from Sentiment Analysis (SA), we can automatically classify the revision outcome and offer stati...