Incorporating structural information into legal case retrieval

Y Ma, Y Wu, Q Ai, Y Liu, Y Shao, M Zhang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Legal case retrieval has received increasing attention in recent years. However, compared
to ad hoc retrieval tasks, legal case retrieval has its unique challenges. First, case …

On the effectiveness of pre-trained language models for legal natural language processing: An empirical study

D Song, S Gao, B He, F Schilder - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first comprehensive empirical evaluation of pre-trained language models
(PLMs) for legal natural language processing (NLP) in order to examine their effectiveness …

STARD: A Chinese Statute Retrieval Dataset Derived from Real-life Queries by Non-professionals

W Su, Y Hu, A Xie, Q Ai, Q Bing, N Zheng… - Findings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Statute retrieval aims to find relevant statutory articles for specific queries. This process is the
basis of a wide range of legal applications such as legal advice, automated judicial …

[HTML][HTML] Textual similarity for legal precedents discovery: Assessing the performance of machine learning techniques in an administrative court

H Mentzingen, N António, F Bacao, M Cunha - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of legal precedents in ensuring consistent jurisprudence is undisputed.
Particularly in jurisdictions following the Common law, but even in Civil law systems …

Software engineering methods for ai-driven deductive legal reasoning

R Padhye - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN International …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The recent proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as pre-
trained large language models (LLMs) has opened up new frontiers in computational law …

A summary of the alqac 2021 competition

NH Thanh, BM Quan, C Nguyen, T Le… - … on knowledge and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We summarize the evaluation of the first Automated Legal Question Answering Competition
(ALQAC 2021). The competition this year contains three tasks, which aims at processing the …

DELTA: Pre-train a Discriminative Encoder for Legal Case Retrieval via Structural Word Alignment

H Li, Q Ai, X Han, J Chen, Q Dong, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent research demonstrates the effectiveness of using pre-trained language models for
legal case retrieval. Most of the existing works focus on improving the representation ability …

Legal textual entailment using ensemble of rule-based and bert-based method with data augmentation by related article generation

M Fujita, T Onaga, A Ueyama, Y Kano - JSAI International Symposium on …, 2022 - Springer
We report our system architecture of COLIEE 2022 Task 4, which challenges to solve the
textual entailment part of the Japanese legal bar examination problems. We successfully …

Alqac 2022: A summary of the competition

C Nguyen, MQ Bui, DT Do, NK Le… - … on Knowledge and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper summarizes the second Automated Legal Question Answering Competition
(ALQAC 2022). ALQAC aims to tackle the tasks of legal text processing for low-resource …

Retrieve–Revise–Refine: A novel framework for retrieval of concise entailing legal article set

C Nguyen, P Nguyen, LM Nguyen - Information Processing & Management, 2025 - Elsevier
The retrieval of entailing legal article sets aims to identify a concise set of legal articles that
holds an entailment relationship with a legal query or its negation. Unlike traditional …