Exploiting LLMs' Reasoning Capability to Infer Implicit Concepts in Legal Information Retrieval
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| author | Nguyen, Hai-Long Nguyen, Tan-Minh Nguyen, Duc-Minh Vuong, Thi-Hai-Yen Nguyen, Ha-Thanh Phan, Xuan-Hieu |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Hai-Long Nguyen, Tan-Minh Nguyen, Duc-Minh Vuong, Thi-Hai-Yen Nguyen, Ha-Thanh Phan, Xuan-Hieu |
| contents | Statutory law retrieval is a typical problem in legal language processing, that has various practical applications in law engineering. Modern deep learning-based retrieval methods have achieved significant results for this problem. However, retrieval systems relying on semantic and lexical correlations often exhibit limitations, particularly when handling queries that involve real-life scenarios, or use the vocabulary that is not specific to the legal domain. In this work, we focus on overcoming this weaknesses by utilizing the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to identify relevant legal terms and facts related to the situation mentioned in the query. The proposed retrieval system integrates additional information from the term--based expansion and query reformulation to improve the retrieval accuracy. The experiments on COLIEE 2022 and COLIEE 2023 datasets show that extra knowledge from LLMs helps to improve the retrieval result of both lexical and semantic ranking models. The final ensemble retrieval system outperformed the highest results among all participating teams in the COLIEE 2022 and 2023 competitions. |
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| spellingShingle | Exploiting LLMs' Reasoning Capability to Infer Implicit Concepts in Legal Information Retrieval Nguyen, Hai-Long Nguyen, Tan-Minh Nguyen, Duc-Minh Vuong, Thi-Hai-Yen Nguyen, Ha-Thanh Phan, Xuan-Hieu Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Statutory law retrieval is a typical problem in legal language processing, that has various practical applications in law engineering. Modern deep learning-based retrieval methods have achieved significant results for this problem. However, retrieval systems relying on semantic and lexical correlations often exhibit limitations, particularly when handling queries that involve real-life scenarios, or use the vocabulary that is not specific to the legal domain. In this work, we focus on overcoming this weaknesses by utilizing the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to identify relevant legal terms and facts related to the situation mentioned in the query. The proposed retrieval system integrates additional information from the term--based expansion and query reformulation to improve the retrieval accuracy. The experiments on COLIEE 2022 and COLIEE 2023 datasets show that extra knowledge from LLMs helps to improve the retrieval result of both lexical and semantic ranking models. The final ensemble retrieval system outperformed the highest results among all participating teams in the COLIEE 2022 and 2023 competitions. |
| title | Exploiting LLMs' Reasoning Capability to Infer Implicit Concepts in Legal Information Retrieval |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12154 |