Exploring the Use of Text Classification in the Legal Domain
Table 2. Distribution of cases according to ruling type.
['[BOLD] First-word ruling (6-class setup)', '[BOLD] # of cases']
For task 2, ruling prediction, we carry out two sets of experiments. A first set of experiments (6-class setup) considers only the first word within each label and only those labels which appeared more than 200 times in the corpus. This lead to an initial set of 6 unique labels: cassation, annulation, irrecevabilite, rejet, non-lieu, and qpc (question prioritaire de constitutionnalité).