CaseGNN++: Graph Contrastive Learning for Legal Case Retrieval with Graph Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11791v1
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 05:16:52 GMT
• Title: CaseGNN++: Graph Contrastive Learning for Legal Case Retrieval with Graph Augmentation
• Authors: Yanran Tang, Ruihong Qiu, Yilun Liu, Xue Li, Zi Huang,
• Abstract summary: Legal case retrieval (LCR) is a specialised information retrieval task that aims to find relevant cases to a given query case. CaseGNN++ is proposed to simultaneously leverage the edge information and additional label data to discover the latent potential of LCR models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Legal case retrieval (LCR) is a specialised information retrieval task that aims to find relevant cases to a given query case. LCR holds pivotal significance in facilitating legal practitioners in finding precedents. Most of existing LCR methods are based on traditional lexical models and language models, which have gained promising performance in retrieval. However, the domain-specific structural information inherent in legal documents is yet to be exploited to further improve the performance. Our previous work CaseGNN successfully harnesses text-attributed graphs and graph neural networks to address the problem of legal structural information neglect. Nonetheless, there remain two aspects for further investigation: (1) The underutilization of rich edge information within text-attributed case graphs limits CaseGNN to generate informative case representation. (2) The inadequacy of labelled data in legal datasets hinders the training of CaseGNN model. In this paper, CaseGNN++, which is extended from CaseGNN, is proposed to simultaneously leverage the edge information and additional label data to discover the latent potential of LCR models. Specifically, an edge feature-based graph attention layer (EUGAT) is proposed to comprehensively update node and edge features during graph modelling, resulting in a full utilisation of structural information of legal cases. Moreover, a novel graph contrastive learning objective with graph augmentation is developed in CaseGNN++ to provide additional training signals, thereby enhancing the legal comprehension capabilities of CaseGNN++ model. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets from COLIEE 2022 and COLIEE 2023 demonstrate that CaseGNN++ not only significantly improves CaseGNN but also achieves supreme performance compared to state-of-the-art LCR methods. Code has been released on https://github.com/yanran-tang/CaseGNN.

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