DC-D4-LegalBERT v1: Deference Classifier — Burden of Justification
Fine-tuned from nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased for 4-class classification of ECtHR paragraphs
on deference dimension D4 (Burden of Justification).
Classes: ND (0) | MD (1) | HD (2) | NA (3)
Scoring rule: continuous deference score = 0×p(ND) + 0.5×p(MD) + 1.0×p(HD); NaN if p(NA) is argmax.
Training data snapshot (v1)
- Train paragraphs : 532
- Val paragraphs : 182
Validation performance (v1)
- Best macro-F1 : 0.5884
- Mean macro-F1 : 0.5697 ± 0.0323
- All seeds : [0.5884, 0.582, 0.5845, 0.5881, 0.5053]
Training setup
- Regime : small (10 epochs, batch size 8, 5 seeds)
- Learning rate : 2e-05
- Seeds tested : [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
Intended use
Part of a Master's Thesis measuring judicial deference in ECtHR Article 8 migration cases. Not intended for production use.