IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 10, No 4: December 2021

A systematic literature review of machine learning methods in predicting court decisions

Nur Aqilah Khadijah Rosili (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Noor Hidayah Zakaria (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Rohayanti Hassan (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Shahreen Kasim (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn)
Farid Zamani Che Rose (Univeristi Sains Malaysia)
Tole Sutikno (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2021

Abstract

Envisaging legal cases’ outcomes can assist the judicial decision-making process. Prediction is possible in various cases, such as predicting the outcome of construction litigation, crime-related cases, parental rights, worker types, divorces, and tax law. The machine learning methods can function as support decision tools in the legal system with artificial intelligence’s advancement. This study aimed to impart a systematic literature review (SLR) of studies concerning the prediction of court decisions via machine learning methods. The review determines and analyses the machine learning methods used in predicting court decisions. This review utilised RepOrting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) publication standard. Subsequently, 22 relevant studies that most commonly predicted the judgement results involving binary classification were chosen from significant databases: Scopus and Web of Sciences. According to the SLR’s outcomes, various machine learning methods can be used in predicting court decisions. Additionally, the performance is acceptable since most methods achieved more than 70% accuracy. Nevertheless, improvements can be made on the types of judicial decisions predicted using the existing machine learning methods.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...