GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval
The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Existing dense retrieval methods typically treat LCR as a black-box semantic matching process, neglecting the explicit juridical logic that underpins legal relevance. To address this, we propose GLIER (Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking), a framework that reformulates retrieval as an inference process over latent legal variables. GLIER decomposes the task into two interpretability-driven stages. First, a Joint Generative Inference module translates raw queries into latent legal indicators, including charges and legal elements, using a unified sequence-to-sequence strategy that jointly generates charges and elements to enforce logical consistency. Second, a Multi-View Evidence Fusion mechanism aggregates generative confidence with structural and lexical signals for precise ranking. Extensive experiments on LeCaRD and LeCaRDv2 demonstrate that GLIER outperforms strong baselines such as SAILER and KELLER. Notably, GLIER exhibits strong data efficiency, maintaining robust performance even when trained with only 10% of the data.
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