Cross-domain Retrieval in the Legal and Patent Domains: a Reproducibility Study

Understand

Domain specific search has always been a challenging information retrieval task due to several challenges such as the domain specific language, the unique task setting, as well as the lack of accessible queries and corresponding relevance judgements.

• In the last years, pretrained language models, such as BERT, revolutionized web and news search.
• Naturally, the community aims to adapt these advancements to cross-domain transfer of retrieval models for domain specific search.
• In the context of legal document retrieval, Shao et al.