The Missing Link: Joint Legal Citation Prediction using Heterogeneous Graph Enrichment
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| author | Wendlinger, Lorenz Nonn, Simon Alexander Zubaer, Abdullah Al Granitzer, Michael |
| author_facet | Wendlinger, Lorenz Nonn, Simon Alexander Zubaer, Abdullah Al Granitzer, Michael |
| contents | Legal systems heavily rely on cross-citations of legal norms as well as previous court decisions. Practitioners, novices and legal AI systems need access to these relevant data to inform appraisals and judgments. We propose a Graph-Neural-Network (GNN) link prediction model that can identify Case-Law and Case-Case citations with high proficiency through fusion of semantic and topological information. We introduce adapted relational graph convolutions operating on an extended and enriched version of the original citation graph that allow the topological integration of semantic meta-information. This further improves prediction by 3.1 points of average precision and by 8.5 points in data sparsity as well as showing robust performance over time and in challenging fully inductive prediction. Jointly learning and predicting case and norm citations achieves a large synergistic effect that improves case citation prediction by up to 4.7 points, at almost doubled efficiency. |
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| spellingShingle | The Missing Link: Joint Legal Citation Prediction using Heterogeneous Graph Enrichment Wendlinger, Lorenz Nonn, Simon Alexander Zubaer, Abdullah Al Granitzer, Michael Social and Information Networks Information Retrieval Legal systems heavily rely on cross-citations of legal norms as well as previous court decisions. Practitioners, novices and legal AI systems need access to these relevant data to inform appraisals and judgments. We propose a Graph-Neural-Network (GNN) link prediction model that can identify Case-Law and Case-Case citations with high proficiency through fusion of semantic and topological information. We introduce adapted relational graph convolutions operating on an extended and enriched version of the original citation graph that allow the topological integration of semantic meta-information. This further improves prediction by 3.1 points of average precision and by 8.5 points in data sparsity as well as showing robust performance over time and in challenging fully inductive prediction. Jointly learning and predicting case and norm citations achieves a large synergistic effect that improves case citation prediction by up to 4.7 points, at almost doubled efficiency. |
| title | The Missing Link: Joint Legal Citation Prediction using Heterogeneous Graph Enrichment |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22165 |