Subject Event Extraction from Chinese Court Verdict Case via Frame-filling

Abstract

At present, the query and acquisition of the fragmented knowledge in Chinese court verdicts mainly adopt the class case retrieval method based on the search engine and the rough extraction method for a part of the data in court verdicts. These traditional methods cannot structurally extract fragmented knowledge in Chinese court verdicts and meet the needs of people for the follow-up analysis of court verdicts. Thus, in this paper, we present a structured subject event extraction method (SEE) for Chinese court verdict cases combining with techniques of event extraction (EE) and attribute-value pair extraction (AVPE). Specifically, we provide a subject event representation frame for organizing fragmented knowledge in Chinese court verdict cases. Then, we extract subject events from the unstructured cases based on the trained sequence labeling models and constructed heuristic rules, and fill them into the subject event representation frame in the form of attribute-value pairs (AVPs). The experimental results show that SEE can efficiently and automatically extract subject events from Chinese court verdict cases and visually display them via frame-filling, which promotes the efficiency of people in searching for legal materials and facilitates further research and analysis.