Retrieval of court decisions dealing with a similar legal matter is a prevalent task performed
by lawyers as it is a part of a relevant decision-making practice review. In spite of the natural …

This paper presents an effective method for case law retrieval based on semantic document
similarity and a web application for querying Finnish case law. The novelty of the work …

Drafting a case decision is an intensive task for lower court judges which may be a factor in
the case backlogs problem of the Philippine judiciary. The search for similar Philippine …

In the domain of legal information retrieval, an important challenge is to compute similarity
between two legal documents. Precedents (statements from prior cases) play an important …

Identification of relevant or similar court decisions is a core activity in legal decision making
for case law researchers and practitioners. With an ever increasing body of case law, a …

With technological advancements, more and more content is becoming available in digital
form on a regular basis. Such overwhelming amount of available data has lead to the …

In common law legal systems judges use previous similar cases, known as precedent, to
determine how the case they are currently hearing should be decided. Task 1 of the 2024 …

The vast volume of documents available in legal databases demands effective information
retrieval approaches which take into consideration the intricacies of the legal domain …

Computing similarity between two legal case documents is a challenging task, for which text-
based and network-based measures have been proposed in literature. All prior network …

The importance of legal precedents in ensuring consistent jurisprudence is undisputed.
Particularly in jurisdictions following the Common law, but even in Civil law systems …