Overview of CAIL2018: Legal Judgment Prediction Competition
  In this paper, we give an overview of the Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP)
competition at Chinese AI and Law challenge (CAIL2018). This competition
focuses on LJP which aims to predict the judgment results according to the
given facts. Specifically, in CAIL2018 , we proposed three subtasks of LJP for
the contestants, i.e., predicting relevant law articles, charges and prison
terms given the fact descriptions. CAIL2018 has attracted several hundreds
participants (601 teams, 1, 144 contestants from 269 organizations). In this
paper, we provide a detailed overview of the task definition, related works,
outstanding methods and competition results in CAIL2018.
