learned_hands_housing

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

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Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 4500

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 with paying your rent or mortgage, landlord-tenant issues, housing subsidies and public housing, eviction, and other problems with your apartment, mobile home, or house.

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.