Fact-based similar case retrieval methods based on statutory knowledge

Existing research on the retrieval task of similar cases ignores the legal logic that the model should imply, and cannot adapt to the requirements of case similarity criteria in practical applications. Few datasets in Chinese for case retrieval tasks are difficult to meet the research needs. A similar case retrieval model was proposed based on legal logic and strong interpretability, and a case event logic graph was constructed based on predicate verbs. The statutory knowledge corresponding to various crimes was integrated into the proposed model, and the extracted elements were input to a neural network-based scorer to realize the task of case retrieval accurately and efficiently. A Confusing-LeCaRD dataset was built for the case retrieval task with a confusing group of charges as the main retrieval causes. Experiments show that the normalized discounted cumulative gain of the proposed model on the LeCaRD dataset and Confusing-LeCaRD dataset was 90.95% and 94.64%, and the model was superior to TF-IDF, BM25 and BERT-PLI in all indicators. © 2024 Zhejiang University. All rights reserved.