The invention discloses a dispute focus automatic identification method based on a hierarchical attention neural network model. The method comprises the steps of firstly, extracting a dispute focus statement of a court for case induction from a document containing a dispute focus induced by the court, and constructing a dispute focus system by utilizing a hierarchical clustering method; and marking a plurality of different category labels for each document by utilizing the dispute focus system, constructing a data set, and converting a dispute focus identification problem into a multi-label multi-classification problem; then, training a hierarchical attention neural network model, paying more attention to important words, sentences and paragraphs containing more information, and forming adispute focus recognizer; and finally, inputting the text of which the dispute focus needs to be identified into a dispute focus identifier to obtain the dispute focus of the input text. The method ishigh in prediction accuracy, can accurately identify and judge the dispute focus of the document, and has good expandability.