Legal Case Retrieval Task
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A Legal Case Retrieval Task is a legal information retrieval task that identifies relevant prior cases from a legal case corpus to support judicial decisions.
- AKA: Case Law Retrieval Task, Precedent Retrieval Task, Judicial Case Finding Task.
- Context:
- It can typically retrieve Legal Supporting Cases with legal semantic similarity measures.
- It can typically process Legal Query Case Documents with legal text analysis methods.
- It can typically identify Legal Noticed Cases through legal citation pattern recognition.
- It can often utilize Legal Dense Retrieval Models with legal domain adaptation.
- It can often employ Legal Two-Stage Retrieval Architectures with legal candidate generation and legal reranking phases.
- It can often integrate Legal Knowledge Graphs for legal structural relationship modeling.
- It can often apply Legal Contrastive Learning Methods for legal embedding training.
- It can range from being a Keyword-Based Legal Case Retrieval Task to being a Neural Legal Case Retrieval Task, depending on its retrieval methodology.
- It can range from being a Single-Jurisdiction Case Retrieval Task to being a Multi-Jurisdiction Case Retrieval Task, depending on its legal scope.
- It can range from being a Boolean Legal Case Retrieval Task to being a Semantic Legal Case Retrieval Task, depending on its matching approach.
- It can range from being a Monolingual Legal Case Retrieval Task to being a Cross-Lingual Legal Case Retrieval Task, depending on its language coverage.
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- Examples:
- Competition-Based Legal Case Retrieval Tasks, such as:
- COLIEE 2025 Task 1, which retrieves supporting cases from Canadian Federal Court corpus.
- COLIEE 2024 Task 1, which identified relevant cases for case law decisions.
- Commercial Legal Case Retrieval Systems, such as:
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- Competition-Based Legal Case Retrieval Tasks, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Legal Statute Retrieval Task, which retrieves statutory articles rather than case law.
- Legal Document Classification Task, which categorizes rather than retrieves.
- General Web Search Task, which lacks legal domain specificity.
- See: Legal Information Retrieval Task, Legal Case Entailment Task, Legal Document Similarity Task, Legal Citation Network Analysis, Dense Retrieval Method, BM25 Algorithm, Cross-Encoder Model, Legal AI Task, Legal Reranking Task, Two-Stage Retrieval Architecture.