learned_hands_immigration

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

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Source: Learned Hands

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Size (samples): 140

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 visas, asylum, green cards, citizenship, migrant work and benefits, and other issues faced by people who are not full citizens in the US.

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.