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- # Deka retrieval
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- A legal case retrieval (LCR) benchmark on Thai Supreme Court decisions (คำพิพากษาฎีกา, *deka*):
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- given a case, retrieve the prior cases that bear on it out of the full 9,998-case pool. Thailand
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- is a civil-law jurisdiction, so relevance is defined over case components — charge, facts, issue,
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- outcome — rather than citation links between judgments, and that criterion is what yields the four
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- label quadrants below. Candidates were mined with a dense retriever and adjudicated by an LLM
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- judge, and every anchor carries three query registers. Anonymous release accompanying a paper
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- under review.
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- ## Files
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- | file | rows | schema |
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- | `corpus.jsonl` | 9,998 | `_id`, `deka_code`, `long_text`, `metadata{deka_no, year, fact, reasoning, laws, crimes, case_type, case_type_group, issue, decision}` |
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- | `queries.jsonl` | 1,381 | `_id`, `long_text`, `lay_query`, `lawyer_query`, `metadata{…, split}` |
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- | `labels.jsonl` | 1,381 | `query_id`, `deka`, `split`, `mined`, `easy_pos[]`, `hard_pos[]`, `hard_neg[]`, `easy_neg[]`, `anomaly[]` |
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- Every entry in a label list is `{candidate_id, deka, score, why, mining_query}` — `candidate_id`
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- joins to `corpus._id`, `mining_query` records which query text surfaced that candidate.
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- ## Query registers
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- Each anchor carries three usable query forms, which retrieve very differently:
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- - `lay_query` — how a layperson would describe the situation (short, non-technical)
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- - `lawyer_query` — how a lawyer would phrase it (statutory language)
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- - `metadata.fact` — the case's own fact section, i.e. the symmetric case-to-case setting
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- ## Splits
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- `labels.jsonl` is authoritative. Anchors are split `train` 1,176 / `eval` 100 / `test` 105.
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- **Excluded:** 191 anchors marked `keep_test` are not part of this release. In `queries.jsonl`,
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- 100 rows whose `metadata.split` disagreed with `labels.jsonl` have been corrected to the label
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- value, so the two files now agree row for row.
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- The 9,998-case corpus is untouched and shared by every split.
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- ## Heuristic case criteria
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- - `easy_pos` — same charge, same decision outcome
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- - `hard_pos` — same charge, different outcome
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- - `hard_neg` — retrieved as similar, judged not relevant
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- - `easy_neg` — clearly unrelated
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- - `anomaly` — candidates the judge could not place cleanly; not relevant by default
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- Roughly one candidate per list per anchor (1,401 entries per list across 1,381 anchors);
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- 175 anchors have no `anomaly` entry.
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- ## Caveats
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- - Positives are **mined, not exhaustively annotated**. A case absent from `easy_pos`/`hard_pos`
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- is not certified irrelevant, so recall computed on this data is a lower bound.
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- - Judgements come from an LLM judge over retrieved candidates; they inherit both the retriever's
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- blind spots and the judge's.
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- - `issue[]` and `decision` were extracted from `long_text` by rule, not by hand.
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- - Decisions are published court documents, but they name parties and describe offences — treat
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- the text as sensitive and do not use it to profile individuals.
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- - Absolute retrieval quality is low (best dense R@10 ≈ 31 on fact queries); this is a research
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- bed, not a solved task.
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  ## Loading
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  corpus = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "corpus", split="train")
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  queries = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "queries", split="train")
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  labels = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "labels", split="train")
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- ```
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- Each config is a single file; filter `metadata.split` / `split` for train / eval / test.
 
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  ## Loading
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  corpus = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "corpus", split="train")
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  queries = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "queries", split="train")
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  labels = load_dataset("anonymousresearch123/deka-retrieval", "labels", split="train")
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