learned_hands_family

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

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Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 2271

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 that arise within a family, like divorce, adoption, name change, guardianship, domestic violence, child custody, and other issues.

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.