Research work on Citation Anchor Text for Improving Precedent Retrieval: An Experimental Study on Indian Legal Documents by Gaurang Patil, Bhoomeendra Singh Sisodiya, K V K Santhy working with Prof. P Krishna Reddy was awarded Best Paper Award at the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems​ (JURIX-2024)  from 11 to 13 December  held at Brno, Czech Republic. Here is the summary of the paper as explained as explained by the authors: 

In the legal domain, research efforts are being made to enhance precedent retrieval by exploiting features based on meta-data, catchphrases, citations, sentences, paragraphs, etc. It is reported in the legal domain that the text surrounding a citation provides information to identify the referenced judgment and supplies additional information about the referenced judgment and its connection to the formulated argument. In this paper, we have exploited the resourcefulness of the text surrounding the citation to improve the document representation of the referenced judgment. Experiments conducted on Indian court judgments show that the proposed Preceding citation Anchor Text (PAT)-based approach captures certain nuances that are not captured by the text present in the referenced judgment, indicating that there is a scope to exploit PAT to improve the performance of precedent retrieval systems.

Conference page: https://jurix2024.law.muni.cz/

Full Paper: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/71006

December 2024