A Free Format Legal Question Answering System
Soha Khazaeli, Janardhana R. Punuru, Chad Morris, Sanjay Sharma, Bert Staub, Michael Cole, Sunny Chiu-Webster, Dhruv Sakalley · 2021
We present an information retrieval-based question answer system to answer legal questions.The system is not limited to a predefined set of questions or patterns and uses both sparse vector search and embeddings for input to a BERT-based answer re-ranking system.A combination of general domain and legal domain data is used for training.This natural question answering system is in production and is used commercially.