learned_hands_crime

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

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Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 694

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 post discusses issues in the criminal system including when people are charged with crimes, go to a criminal trial, go to prison, or are a victim of a crime.

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.