Methods for Computing Legal Document Similarity: A Comparative Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12307v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:26:04 GMT
• Title: Methods for Computing Legal Document Similarity: A Comparative Study
• Authors: Paheli Bhattacharya, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Arindam Pal, Saptarshi Ghosh
• Abstract summary: Finding similar legal documents is an important and challenging task in the domain of Legal Information Retrieval. We propose two broad ways of measuring similarity between legal documents - analyzing the precedent citation network, and measuring similarity based on textual content similarity measures. We explore two promising new similarity computation methods - one text-based and the other based on network embeddings, which have not been considered till now.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Computing similarity between two legal documents is an important and challenging task in the domain of Legal Information Retrieval. Finding similar legal documents has many applications in downstream tasks, including prior-case retrieval, recommendation of legal articles, and so on. Prior works have proposed two broad ways of measuring similarity between legal documents - analyzing the precedent citation network, and measuring similarity based on textual content similarity measures. But there has not been a comprehensive comparison of these existing methods on a common platform. In this paper, we perform the first systematic analysis of the existing methods. In addition, we explore two promising new similarity computation methods - one text-based and the other based on network embeddings, which have not been considered till now.

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