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dc.contributor.advisorSusheela Devi, V
dc.contributor.authorRaj, Rohit
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-03T09:30:02Z
dc.date.available2023-07-03T09:30:02Z
dc.date.submitted2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/6145
dc.description.abstractLegal Judgment Prediction (LJP) implements Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to predict judgment results based on fact description. It can play a vital role as a legal assistant and benefit legal practitioners and regular citizens. Recently, the rapid advances in transformer- based pre-trained language models led to considerable improvement in this area. However, empirical results show that existing LJP systems are not robust to adversaries and noise. Also, they cannot handle large-length legal documents. In this work, we explore the robustness and efficiency of LJP systems even in a low data regime. In the first part, we empirically verify that existing state-of-the-art LJP systems are not robust. We further provide our novel architecture for LJP tasks which can handle extensive text lengths and adversarial examples. Our model performs better than state-of-the-art models, even in the presence of adversarial examples of the legal domain. In the second part, we investigate the approach for the LJP system in a low data regime. We further divide our second work into two scenarios depending on the number of unseen classes in the dataset which is being used for the LJP system. In the first scenario, we propose a few-shot approach with only two labels for the Judgement prediction task. In the second scenario, we propose an approach where we have an excessive number of labels for judgment prediction. For both approaches, we provide novel architectures using few-shot learning that are also robust to adversaries. We conducted extensive experiments on American, European, and Indian legal datasets in the few-shot scenario. Though trained using the few-shot approach, our models perform comparably to state-of-the-art models that are trained using large datasets in the legal domain.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;ET00158
dc.rightsI grant Indian Institute of Science the right to archive and to make available my thesis or dissertation in whole or in part in all forms of media, now hereafter known. I retain all proprietary rights, such as patent rights. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis or dissertationen_US
dc.subjectLegal Judgment Predictionen_US
dc.subjectNatural Language Processingen_US
dc.subjectLegal dataseten_US
dc.subject.classificationResearch Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Information technology::Computer scienceen_US
dc.titleTowards Robustness of Neural Legal Judgement Systemen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.degree.nameMTech (Res)en_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.grantorIndian Institute of Scienceen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEngineeringen_US


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