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Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Volume 35

BERT-CLSTM model for the classification of Moroccan commercial courts verdicts

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2023F3561

Citation: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki, D. Ślęzak (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 35, pages 281284 ()

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Abstract. The exponential growth of data generated by the Moroccan commercial court system, coupled with the manual archiving of legal documents, has led to increasingly complex information access. As data classification becomes imperative, researchers are exploring automatic language processing tech- niques and refining text classification methods. In this study, we propose a BERT-CLSTM model for the classification of Moroccan commercial court verdicts. By adding a Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Network to the task-specific layers of BERT, our model can get information on important fragments in the text. In addition, we input the representation along with the output of the BERT into the transformer encoder to take advantage of the self-attention mechanism and finally get the representation of the whole text through the transformer. The proposed model outperformed the compared baselines and achieved good results by getting an F-measure value of 93.61%

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