Giving Examples Instead of Answering Questions: Introducing Legal Concept-Example Systems

Tomer Libal, Aleksander Smywinski-Pohl

Abstract: Question-Answering Systems (QASs) have seen a big development in recent years and various attempts have been made to extend them to the legal domain. Nevertheless, the needs and methodology of legal research relies often less on getting answers and more on finding positive and negative examples for certain legal concepts. In this paper, we introduce a sub-category within QASs that focuses on such legal tasks and design a methodology for the automated production of such systems.