Feedforward Neural Network Based Case Prediction in Turkish Higher Courts

Thanks to natural language processing (NLP) methods, legal texts can be processed by computers and decision prediction applications can be developed in the legal tech field. Increase in the available data sources in the Turkish legal system provides an opportunity to develop NLP applications as well. In order to develop these applications, the necessary corpora and datasets should be created. In this work, legal case texts from the Turkish Higher Courts that are open to public access and free from personal data are used to develop decision prediction methods. Feedforward neural networks (FFNN) are deployed using word embeddings and the features extracted from texts via the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm. %85.4 Macro F1 score level is achieved.