Comparison of Neural Network Models for Predicting Rhetorical Roles in Legal Documents
摘要
The analysis of legal documents, specifically Indian ones, which are characterized by their length and terminological complexity, poses significant challenges, as traditional approaches are not adequate for drawing conclusions efficiently. This article presents an evaluation of neural network models for predicting rhetorical roles in Indian court judgments, as part of Subtask A of Task 6 of SemEval-2023, dedicated to the understanding of legal texts. Experiments were conducted with models such as BERT, LegalBERT and RoBERTa to classify Rhetorical Roles (RR) in Indian legal texts. The results show that the LegalBERT model performed best, with an F1 score of 0.6318 (63.18%) compared to the other models tested.