Title
Commonalities-, specificities-, and dependencies-enhanced multi-task learning network for judicial decision prediction
Abstract
Judicial Decision Prediction (JDP) aims to determine judicial decisions per the fact description of a criminal case. It comprises multiple subtasks, i.e., law article prediction, charge prediction, and term of the penalty prediction. Besides, there exist three properties among the subtasks, i.e., Commonalities,Specificities, and Dependencies. Nonetheless, existing approaches are usually well-designed for only a specific subtask, or take one of the properties into consideration for multiple subtasks. In this paper, we propose a novel Commonalities-, Specificities- and Dependencies-Enhanced Multi-Task Learning Network, to unify multiple subtasks accompanied by the properties in a framework. Further, while handling the Dependencies, we elaborate a learning module to ensure each subtask to learn contributions from other subtasks to varying degrees, a denoising module to minimize noise interferences among subtasks, and a reinforcing module to guarantee further enhancement for each subtask. Experimental results on two widely used datasets demonstrate that our model significantly and consistently outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on most evaluation metrics across all subtasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2020.10.010
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Judicial decision prediction,Multi-task learning,Commonalities-specificities encoder,Dependencies decoder
Journal
433
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fanglong Yao100.68
Xian Sun2165.49
Hongfeng Yu303.72
Wenkai Zhang404.73
Kun Fu541457.81