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Two key assumptions shape the usual view of ranked retrieval: (1) that the searcher can choose words for their query that might appear in the documents that they wish to see, and (2) that ranking retrieved documents will suffice because the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Petra Galuščáková , Douglas W. Oard , Suraj Nair

Legal case retrieval is a critical process for modern legal information systems. While recent studies have utilized pre-trained language models (PLMs) based on the general domain self-supervised pre-training paradigm to build models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yixiao Ma , Yueyue Wu , Weihang Su , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu

Protecting privileged communications and data from disclosure is paramount for legal teams. Unrestricted legal advice, such as attorney-client communications or litigation strategy. are vital to the legal process and are exempt from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Peter Gronvall , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Jianping Zhang , Robert Keeling , Robert Neary , Haozhen Zhao

Recent advancements in AI technology have seen researchers and industry professionals actively exploring the application of AI tools in legal workflows. Despite this prevailing trend, legal practitioners found that AI tools had limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jiarui Guan , Ruishi Zou , Jiajun Zhang , Kimpan Xin , Bingsu He , Zhuhe Zhang , Chen Ye

Large language models with billions of parameters, such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and LLaMA, are increasingly prevalent. Numerous studies have explored effective prompting techniques to harness the power of these LLMs for various research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Hai-Long Nguyen , Duc-Minh Nguyen , Tan-Minh Nguyen , Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Thi-Hai-Yen Vuong , Ken Satoh

The ease and speed of spreading misinformation and propaganda on the Web motivate the need to develop trustworthy technology for detecting fallacies in natural language arguments. However, state-of-the-art language modeling methods exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zhivar Sourati , Filip Ilievski , Hông-Ân Sandlin , Alain Mermoud

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly integrated into legal applications, including judicial decision support, legal practice assistance, and public-facing legal services. While LLMs show strong potential in handling legal…

Traditional retrieval methods rely on transforming user queries into vector representations and retrieving documents based on cosine similarity within an embedding space. While efficient and scalable, this approach often fails to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Felix Faltings , Wei Wei , Yujia Bao

One type of machine learning, text classification, is now regularly applied in the legal matters involving voluminous document populations because it can reduce the time and expense associated with the review of those documents. One form of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Rishi Chhatwal , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Robert Keeling , Jianping Zhang , Haozhen Zhao

Re-finding electronic documents from a personal computer is a frequent demand to users. In a simple re-finding task, people can use many methods to retrieve a document, such as navigating directly to the document's folder, searching with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Gangli Liu , Ling Feng

To undertake computational research of the law, efficiently identifying datasets of court decisions that relate to a specific legal issue is a crucial yet challenging endeavour. This study addresses the gap in the literature working with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Ahmed Izzidien , Holli Sargeant , Felix Steffek

Efficient text retrieval is critical for applications such as legal document analysis, particularly in specialized contexts like Japanese legal systems. Existing retrieval methods often underperform in such domain-specific scenarios,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Quang Hoang Trung , Le Trung Hoang , Nguyen Van Hoang Phuc

The task of answer retrieval in the legal domain aims to help users to seek relevant legal advice from massive amounts of professional responses. Two main challenges hinder applying existing answer retrieval approaches in other domains to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Arian Askari , Zihui Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Suzan Verberne

One technique to improve the retrieval effectiveness of a search engine is to expand documents with terms that are related or representative of the documents' content.From the perspective of a question answering system, this might comprise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Rodrigo Nogueira , Wei Yang , Jimmy Lin , Kyunghyun Cho

Many users turn to document retrieval systems (e.g. search engines) to seek answers to controversial questions. Answering such user queries usually require identifying responses within web documents, and aggregating the responses based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sihao Chen , Siyi Liu , Xander Uyttendaele , Yi Zhang , William Bruno , Dan Roth

Automated Fact-Checking has largely focused on verifying general knowledge against static corpora, overlooking high-stakes domains like law where truth is evolving and technically complex. We introduce CaseFacts, a benchmark for verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

Candidate retrieval is a fundamental issue in recommendation system. Given user's recommendation request, relevant candidates need to be retrieved in realtime for subsequent ranking operations. Considering that the retrieval operation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zheng Liu , Yu Xing , Jianxun Lian , Defu Lian , Ziyao Li , Xing Xie

Traditional legal retrieval systems designed to retrieve legal documents, statutes, precedents, and other legal information are unable to give satisfactory answers due to lack of semantic understanding of specific questions. Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nan Xie , Yuelin Bai , Hengyuan Gao , Feiteng Fang , Qixuan Zhao , Zhijian Li , Ziqiang Xue , Liang Zhu , Shiwen Ni , Min Yang

This paper tries to throw light in the usage of data structures in the field of information retrieval. Information retrieval is an area of study which is gaining momentum as the need and urge for sharing and exploring information is growing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-26 V. R. Kanagavalli , G. Maheeja

Legal case retrieval (LCR) aims to provide similar cases as references for a given fact description. This task is crucial for promoting consistent judgments in similar cases, effectively enhancing judicial fairness and improving work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Cheng Gao , Chaojun Xiao , Zhenghao Liu , Huimin Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun