Few-Shot Charge Prediction with Data Augmentation and Feature Augmentation

Featured Application: This study aims to effectively analyze legal cases, and the findings serve as a reference for the business domain.The task of charge prediction is to predict the charge based on the fact description. Existing methods have a good effect on the prediction of high-frequency charges, but the prediction of low-frequency charges is still a challenge. Moreover, there exist some confusing charges that have relatively similar fact descriptions, which can be easily misjudged. Therefore, we propose a model with data augmentation and feature augmentation for few-shot charge prediction. Specifically, the model takes the text description as the input and uses the Mixup method to generate virtual samples for data augmentation. Then, the charge information heterogeneous graph is introduced, and a novel graph convolutional network is designed to extract distinguishability features for feature augmentation. A feature fusion network is used to effectively integrate the charge graph knowledge into the fact to learn semantic-enhanced fact representation. Finally, the semantic-enhanced fact representation is used to predict the charge. In addition, based on the distribution of each charge, a category prior loss function is designed to increase the contribution of low-frequency charges to the model optimization. The experimental results on real-work datasets prove the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed model.