Janardhana Punuru


2021

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A Free Format Legal Question Answering System
Soha Khazaeli | Janardhana Punuru | Chad Morris | Sanjay Sharma | Bert Staub | Michael Cole | Sunny Chiu-Webster | Dhruv Sakalley
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 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.