Legal Statute Retrieval Task
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A Legal Statute Retrieval Task is a legal information retrieval task that retrieves relevant statutory articles from a legal code corpus to answer legal questions.
- AKA: Statute Law Retrieval Task, Legal Code Retrieval Task, Statutory Article Retrieval Task.
- Context:
- It can typically retrieve Legal Civil Code Articles with legal hierarchical structure modeling.
- It can typically process Legal Bar Exam Questions with legal query analysis methods.
- It can typically identify Legal Relevant Provisions through legal semantic matching algorithms.
- It can often employ Legal Graph Neural Networks for legal statutory relationship encoding.
- It can often utilize Legal Hierarchical Attention Mechanisms for legal multi-level text processing.
- It can often apply Legal Citation Inlining Methods for legal cross-reference resolution.
- It can often integrate Legal Domain Ontologies for legal concept disambiguation.
- It can range from being a Keyword-Based Legal Statute Retrieval Task to being a Semantic Legal Statute Retrieval Task, depending on its matching methodology.
- It can range from being a Single-Article Legal Statute Retrieval Task to being a Multi-Article Legal Statute Retrieval Task, depending on its retrieval scope.
- It can range from being a Exact-Match Legal Statute Retrieval Task to being a Fuzzy-Match Legal Statute Retrieval Task, depending on its precision requirement.
- It can range from being a Rule-Based Legal Statute Retrieval Task to being a Learning-Based Legal Statute Retrieval Task, depending on its algorithmic approach.
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- Examples:
- Competition Legal Statute Retrieval Tasks, such as:
- COLIEE 2025 Task 3, retrieving articles from Japanese Civil Code corpus.
- COLIEE 2024 Task 3, finding relevant statutes for bar exam questions.
- Commercial Legal Statute Retrieval Systems, such as:
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- Competition Legal Statute Retrieval Tasks, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Legal Case Retrieval Task, which retrieves case law rather than statutes.
- Legal Contract Retrieval Task, which retrieves private agreements rather than public law.
- Legal Opinion Retrieval Task, which retrieves commentary rather than primary sources.
- See: Legal Information Retrieval Task, Legal Statute Entailment Task, Graph Neural Network for Legal AI System, Hierarchical Document Model, Legal Knowledge Graph, F2 Score Measure, BM25 Algorithm, Legal AI Task, Legal Reranking Task.