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Yes, BM25 is a Strong Baseline for Legal Case Retrieval

Information Retrieval 2021-10-26 v2 Computation and Language Machine Learning
Authors: Guilherme Moraes Rosa , Ruan Chaves Rodrigues , Roberto Lotufo , Rodrigo Nogueira
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Abstract

We describe our single submission to task 1 of COLIEE 2021. Our vanilla BM25 got second place, well above the median of submissions. Code is available at https://github.com/neuralmind-ai/coliee.

Keywords

legal case retrieval bm25 coliee baseline information retrieval

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.05686,
  title  = {Yes, BM25 is a Strong Baseline for Legal Case Retrieval},
  author = {Guilherme Moraes Rosa and Ruan Chaves Rodrigues and Roberto Lotufo and Rodrigo Nogueira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05686},
  year   = {2021}
}

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