Prediction Model for Drunk Driving Sentencing: Applying TextCNN to Chinese Judgement Texts

Hsuan Lei Shao, Yu Ying Huang, Sieh Chuen Huang*

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Abstract

Drunk driving cases often arouse public concern in Taiwanese society. According to 2013 amended Paragraph 1 of Article 185–3, the Taiwan Criminal Code, a drunk person may face up to a maximum sentence of two years in prison if his/her exhalation contains alcohol of 0.25 mg per liter or more, or blood alcohol concentration is 0.05% or more. The huge volume of “drunk driving” cases becomes a considerable workload for the court and therefore it may be worthwhile developing an automatic sentencing supportive system. This research attempts to train a deep-learning model to predict sentences by inputting the section of “recidivist/facts of the judgement.” The TextCNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) model reached a 73% accuracy rate in four-category sentencing prediction. This research suggests that adopting two kinds of pre-processing methods and a well-trained model directly to unstructured judgement texts without word segmentation can result in a good performance. It opens the possibility of applying different machine learning techniques to legal texts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI-isAI 2021 Workshops, JURISIN, LENLS18, SCIDOCA, Kansei-AI, AI-BIZ, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsKatsutoshi Yada, Yasufumi Takama, Koji Mineshima, Ken Satoh
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3-15
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031361890
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventThe 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 2021 Nov 132021 Nov 15

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13856 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceThe 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence supported by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2021
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period2021/11/132021/11/15

Keywords

  • Text-classification
  • TextCNN
  • convolutional neural network
  • deep learning
  • drunk driving
  • sentencing system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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