# Classification on Sentence Embeddings for Legal Assistance

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02639 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.02639/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 5 Feb 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Identification of Rhetorical Roles of Sentences in Indian Legal Judgments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.05405/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Legal proceedings take plenty of time and also cost a lot. The lawyers have to do a lot of work in order to identify the different sections of prior cases and statutes. The paper tries to solve the first tasks in AILA2021 (Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance) that will be held in FIRE2021 (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation). The task is to semantically segment the document into different assigned one of the 7 predefined labels or "rhetorical roles." The paper uses BERT to obtain the sentence embeddings from a sentence, and then a linear classifier is used to output the final prediction. The experiments show that when more weightage is assigned to the class with the highest frequency, the results are better than those when more weightage is given to the class with a lower frequency. In task 1, the team legalNLP obtained a F1 score of 0.22.