人工智能將應用於法院審判 準確率可達79%
An artificial intelligence that predicts the outcome of court proceedings may sound like a futuristic dream.
人工智能預測法院訴訟結果可能聽起來像是個遙不可及的夢想。But a new study claims to have developed an AI that predict the results of human rights trials with 79 per cent accuracy.
但是一項最新研究指出，研發者已經開發出了一種預測人權審判結果的人工智能技術，其準確度達到了79%。The technology is the first to predict the outcomes of major international court trials by analysing case text using a machine learning algorithm, claim the researchers.
研究人員表示，通過運用機器學習算法，研究國際先例的裁決文書，預測重要國際法院審判結果的技術尚屬首例。
The method was devised by researchers at University College London (UCL), the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania.
這是倫敦學院大學、雪菲爾大學，以及賓夕法尼亞大學合作開發的項目。
'We don't see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they'd find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes,' explained Dr Nikolaos Aletras, who led the study at UCL Computer Science.
倫敦學院大學計算機科學院的該研究負責人尼古勞斯·阿爾特拉斯博士解釋道：“人工智能不會取代法官或律師，但是我們認爲人們會發現人工智能益處良多，它能夠快速識別導致某種特定結果的案件類型。”'It could also be a valuable tool for highlighting which cases are most likely to be violations of the European Convention on Human Rights.'
“它還十分利於找出哪些案件最有可能違反《歐洲人權公約》。”The researchers found that judgements by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are highly linked to non-legal facts, rather than directly legal arguments.
研究人員發現，歐洲人權法院（ECtHR）的審判與非法律事件息息相關，而不是直接基於法律證據。This suggests that the judges of the court are, in the jargon of legal theory, 'realists', rather than 'formalists'.
用法律理論的行話來說就是，法院的法官是“現實主義者”，而非“形式主義者”。
