Legal Executive Power And Public Service Document Classifier (EURLEX)

Description

European Union (EU) legislation is published in the EUR-Lex portal. All EU laws are annotated by the EU’s Publications Office with multiple concepts from the EuroVoc thesaurus, a multilingual thesaurus maintained by the Publications Office.

Given a document, the legclf_executive_power_and_public_service_bert model, it is a Bert Sentence Embeddings Document Classifier, classifies if the document belongs to the class Executive_Power_and_Public_Service or not (Binary Classification) according to EuroVoc labels.

Predicted Entities

Executive_Power_and_Public_Service, Other

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How to use

document_assembler = nlp.DocumentAssembler()\
    .setInputCol("text")\
    .setOutputCol("document")

embeddings = nlp.BertSentenceEmbeddings.pretrained("sent_bert_base_cased", "en")\
    .setInputCols("document")\
    .setOutputCol("sentence_embeddings")

doc_classifier = legal.ClassifierDLModel.pretrained("legclf_executive_power_and_public_service_bert", "en", "legal/models")\
    .setInputCols(["sentence_embeddings"])\
    .setOutputCol("category")

nlpPipeline = nlp.Pipeline(stages=[
    document_assembler, 
    embeddings,
    doc_classifier])

df = spark.createDataFrame([["YOUR TEXT HERE"]]).toDF("text")

model = nlpPipeline.fit(df)

result = model.transform(df)

Results

+-------+
|result|
+-------+
|[Executive_Power_and_Public_Service]|
|[Other]|
|[Other]|
|[Executive_Power_and_Public_Service]|

Model Information

References

Train dataset available here

Benchmarking

                             label precision recall  f1-score  support
Executive_Power_and_Public_Service      0.84   0.83      0.84      159
                             Other      0.84   0.85      0.84      166
                          accuracy         -      -      0.84      325
                         macro-avg      0.84   0.84      0.84      325
                      weighted-avg      0.84   0.84      0.84      325