Yes, bm25 is a strong baseline for legal case retrieval
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05686, 2021
Recommended citation: Rosa, Guilherme Moraes; Rodrigues, Ruan Chaves; Lotufo, Roberto; Nogueira, Rodrigo. (2021). "Yes, bm25 is a strong baseline for legal case retrieval." arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05686. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05686.pdf
We describe our single submission to task 1 of COLIEE 2021. Our vanilla BM25 got second place, well above the median of submissions. Code is available at https://github.com/neuralmind-ai/coliee.
@article{rosa2021yes,
title={Yes, bm25 is a strong baseline for legal case retrieval},
author={Rosa, Guilherme Moraes and Rodrigues, Ruan Chaves and Lotufo, Roberto and Nogueira, Rodrigo},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05686},
year={2021}
}