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Case Law Analysis with Machine Learning in Brazilian Court

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This paper aims the application of the knowledge discovering process in a judicial decisions database with the goal of unveiling the tendency of opinion Brazilian courts have, in relation to the favored party, employee or employer. Supervised machine learning techniques were used to classify documents. Such predictive model reached scores of more than 90% of ranking decision accuracy resulting in solid information about the tendency of each judge. Thus, this project contributes with a software that allows law firms to obtain information in a fast visual and exploratory way enabling them to focus and make more efforts in finding more effective legal strategies, than in jurisprudential research.

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In memory of Etiene Hubert da Silva Jaccottet, the most charismatic person ever known. Word that comes from the Latin that represents the extraordinary and divine gift that he had to fascinate people. May his soul rest in peace.

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Barros, R., Peres, A., Lorenzi, F., Krug Wives, L., Hubert da Silva Jaccottet, E. (2018). Case Law Analysis with Machine Learning in Brazilian Court. In: Mouhoub, M., Sadaoui, S., Ait Mohamed, O., Ali, M. (eds) Recent Trends and Future Technology in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92058-0_82

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