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Legal professionals worldwide are currently trying to get up-to-pace with the explosive growth in legal document availability through digital means. This drives a need for high efficiency Legal Information Retrieval (IR) and Question…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Danilo S. Carvalho , Duc-Vu Tran , Van-Khanh Tran , Le-Nguyen Minh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated success across many benchmarks. However, they still exhibit limitations in long-context scenarios, primarily due to their short effective context length, quadratic computational complexity, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Manlai Liang , Mandi Liu , Jiangzhou Ji , Huaijun Li , Haobo Yang , Yaohan He , Jinlong Li

We propose deep learning based methods for automatic systems of legal retrieval and legal question-answering in COLIEE 2020. These systems are all characterized by being pre-trained on large amounts of data before being finetuned for the…

We discuss our experiments for COLIEE Task 1, a court case retrieval competition using cases from the Federal Court of Canada. During experiments on the training data we observe that passage level retrieval with rank fusion outperforms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tobias Fink , Gabor Recski , Wojciech Kusa , Allan Hanbury

In this report, we introduce the Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker model series, the latest extensions of the Qwen family built on the Qwen3-VL foundation model. Together, they provide an end-to-end pipeline for high-precision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingxin Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Keqin Chen , Sibo Song , Shuai Bai , Zhibo Yang , Pengjun Xie , An Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Jingren Zhou , Junyang Lin

Word embeddings have advanced the state of the art in NLP across numerous tasks. Understanding the contents of dense neural representations is of utmost interest to the computational semantics community. We propose to focus on relating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Timothee Mickus , Kees van Deemter , Mathieu Constant , Denis Paperno

We present our system for semantic frame induction that showed the best performance in Subtask B.1 and finished as the runner-up in Subtask A of the SemEval 2019 Task 2 on unsupervised semantic frame induction (QasemiZadeh et al., 2019).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Saba Anwar , Dmitry Ustalov , Nikolay Arefyev , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Chris Biemann , Alexander Panchenko

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted to enrich the semantic representation of textual item information in recommender systems. However, existing linear autoencoders (LAEs) that incorporate textual information rely on sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jaewan Moon , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

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

In modern e-commerce search systems, dense retrieval has become an indispensable component. By computing similarities between query and item (product) embeddings, it efficiently selects candidate products from large-scale repositories. With…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jianting Tang , Dongshuai Li , Tao Wen , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Linli Xu

In the context of the Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE), we propose a method comprising the necessary steps for finding relevant documents to a legal question and deciding on textual entailment evidence to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Danilo S. Carvalho , Minh-Tien Nguyen , Tran Xuan Chien , Minh Le Nguyen

We present our method for tackling a legal case retrieval task by introducing our method of encoding documents by summarizing them into continuous vector space via our phrase scoring framework utilizing deep neural networks. On the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Vu Tran , Minh Le Nguyen , Satoshi Tojo , Ken Satoh

This paper describes the architecture and systems built towards solving the SemEval 2023 Task 2: MultiCoNER II (Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition) [1]. We evaluate two approaches (a) a traditional Conditional Random Fields model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kiran Voderhobli Holla , Chaithanya Kumar , Aryan Singh

Large vision language models (LVLMs) achieve remarkable performance through Vision In-context Learning (VICL), a process that depends significantly on demonstrations retrieved from an extensive collection of annotated examples (retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Wenqiang Wang , Yangshijie Zhang

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) excel at video understanding tasks where outputs are textual, such as Video Question Answering and Video Captioning. However, they underperform specialized embedding-based models in Retrieval tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rohit Gupta , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Fan Fei , Sheng Liu , Son Tran , Mubarak Shah

Idiomatic expressions present a unique challenge in NLP, as their meanings are often not directly inferable from their constituent words. Despite recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), idiomaticity remains a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Thomas Pickard , Aline Villavicencio , Maggie Mi , Wei He , Dylan Phelps , Marco Idiart

Traditionally in the domain of legal research, the retrieval of pertinent citations from intricate case descriptions has demanded manual effort and keyword-based search applications that mandate expertise in understanding legal jargon.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Akshat Mohan Dasula , Hrushitha Tigulla , Preethika Bhukya

We consider the large-scale query-document retrieval problem: given a query (e.g., a question), return the set of relevant documents (e.g., paragraphs containing the answer) from a large document corpus. This problem is often solved in two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Wei-Cheng Chang , Felix X. Yu , Yin-Wen Chang , Yiming Yang , Sanjiv Kumar

Recent advances in AI have catalyzed the adoption of intelligent educational tools, yet many semantic retrieval systems remain ill-suited to the unique linguistic and structural characteristics of academic content. This study presents two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ramteja Sajja , Yusuf Sermet , Ibrahim Demir

Recently embedding-based retrieval or dense retrieval have shown state of the art results, compared with traditional sparse or bag-of-words based approaches. This paper introduces a model-agnostic doc-level embedding framework through large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Mingrui Wu , Sheng Cao