Enhancing Legal Case Retrieval via Scaling High-quality Synthetic Query-Candidate Pairs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on case-to-case retrieval using lengthy queries, which does not match real-world scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to construct query-candidate pairs and build the largest LCR dataset to date, LEAD. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that the method can provide ample training signals for LCR models. |
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