In the last years, the legal domain has been revolutionized by the use of Information and Communication Technologies, producing large amount of digital information. Legal …
In an Indian law system, different courts publish their legal proceedings every month for future reference of legal experts and common people. Extensive manual labor and time are …
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 …
Estimating the similarity between two legal case documents is an important and challenging problem, having various downstream applications such as prior-case retrieval and citation …
Analyzing and evaluating legal case reports are labor-intensive tasks for judges and lawyers, who usually base their decisions on report abstracts, legal principles, and …
We present a summary of the 7th Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment. The competition consists of four tasks on case law and statute law. The case law …
Topic modeling techniques are popularly used for document clustering, large-scale text analysis, information extraction from unstructured text documents, feature selection from …
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 …
Abstract In a Common Law system, legal practitioners need frequent access to prior case documents that discuss relevant legal issues. Case documents are generally very lengthy …