case_study

Workflow

Supplementary Description

• Directory case_study_result stores all figures, networks and text results.

• After opening .html files in browser, figures can be downlowded with .png format from the webpage.

• Directory to_be_checked contains files that need to be corrected by Profs.

Code Interpretation

• case_process
  • process_details
    • case_process_improved
      • Process raw json file to structural json file, generate case dict files
      • Phrase Matcher, entity recognition class, entity ruler, tokenizer, spacy pipeline
      • Token2vec
    • common_build_csv_pd
      • Generate all_cases.csv from csv_graph
      • Adding plaintiff, defendant, lawyer information for each case
    • case_to_graph_only_method
      • Generate csv_graph from csv files in total_dict_result/modified.csv, which contains information from all case dict files
    • case_to_pd
      • Generate modified.csv from all case dict files
  • basic_information
    • case_to_graph_basic_information
      • Descriptive information of cases(1st, 2nd), plaintiffs, defendants, procedures, penalty, object money, (and legal fee)
    • MoransI
      • Explore whether case amount is relevant to provinces
    • caseNeo4j
      • Generate data for neo4j use
  • plaintiffs
    • activePlaintiffPatterns1
      • Descriptive information about the first 200 active plaintiffs and their cases
      • Still have problems to be solved
        • 用neo4j分析活跃原告和其被告的关系，可以分析重要的活跃原告，重要的被告，以及原告-被告pair
    • activePlaintiffPatterns2
      • Analytical information about the first 200 active plaintiffs and their cases
    • activePlaintiffPatterns3
      • Analyse the reason why active plaintiffs exit
    • activePlaintiffPatterns4
      • community analysis about 200 active plaintiffs
    • plaintiffLawyerCommunityVisual
      • Visualise community with sigma.js
      • G_3_2.gexf contains community of plaintiffs that cooperated with the same lawyer
    • plaintiffCommunityAnalysis
      • Prove the validity of community in graph G_3 in active_plaintiff_patterns4
      • Analyse lawyers of communities
    • plaintiffLawyer
      • Descriptive and analytical information about cases with lawyers and were sued by the first 200 active plaintiffs
• reasonExtract
  • caseReasonExtract
    • extract case reasons through reason keywords match, and then vote match times to find the primary reason
  • LDA
    • Find case reason categories and keywords in each category from "court held" contents
  • resultDisplay
    • Descriptive information for case reasons
  • textcnn
    • classify "court held" content into specific case reason with self-defined reason category
• case_crawler
  • Lawsdata website crawler based on python Scrapy frame