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Title : Interpretable Natural Language Processing for Court Decisions
        Prediction

Context :

Understanding and predicting judicial decisions is a major scientific
and economic challenge. This project is a multi-disciplinary
collaboration between 3 laboratories in Grenoble (CRJ, TIMC, LIG) that
aims at designing *interpretable* NLP systems that predict the
decisions made by a court, using recent state-of-the-art methods
(FlauBERT).

Tasks of the internship:

1.  Literature review on legal NLP
2.  Implementing and evaluating a FlauBERT-based classifier on a
    dataset of 1000 court rulings (annotated by CRJ lawyers).
3.  Carry on an analysis of the classifier's behaviour with classical
    methodology (error analysis) and more recent interpretability
    methods (Atanasova et al. ACL 2020).

Keywords : NLP; Deep learning

References:

-   A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text
    Classification, Pepa Atanasova, Jakob Grue Simonsen, Christina
    Lioma, Isabelle Augenstein
    https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.263/
-   FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French, Hang
    Le, Loïc Vial, Jibril Frej, Vincent Segonne, Maximin Coavoux,
    Benjamin Lecouteux, Alexandre Allauzen, Benoit Crabbé, Laurent
    Besacier, Didier Schwab.
    https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.302/
-   Analysis and Multilabel Classification of Quebec Court Decisions in
    the Domain of Housing Law, Salaün O., Langlais Ph., Lou A.,
    Westermann H. , Benyekhlef K., 25th International Conference on
    Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020,
    Saarbrücken, Germany, June 24-26, 2020,Proceedings.

Preferred qualifications:

-   Languages : a good command of English and French is required
-   Programming skills : Python (huggingface, pytorch), R
-   Ongoing M2 in NLP / Computer science / Data science

Practical information:

-   Place : Grenoble
-   Salary (around 550 Euros nets / month)
-   Duration : 6 months (start date is flexible between february-april
    2022)
-   Supervisors : Maximin Coavoux (LIG), Caroline Bazzoli (TIMC),
    Étienne Vergès (Centre de recherche Juridique)
-   To apply, please send a cv/motivation letter/M1 grade transcript
    to: maximin.coavoux@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr,
    caroline.bazzoli@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr,
    etienne.verges@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr