learned_hands_benefits

Classify if a user post implicates legal isssues related to benefits.

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Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 72

Legal reasoning type: Issue-spotting

Task type: Binary classification

Task description

This is a binary classification task in which the model must determine if a user’s legal post discusses public benefits and social services that people can get from the government, like for food, disability, old age, housing, medical help, unemployment, child care, or other social needs?

Task construction

This task was constructed from the LearnedHands dataset. Please see their website for more information on annotation. Our task consists of a binarized version of the original dataset, with “negatives” randomly sampled from posts with other topics. This dataset is class balanced.