SG LegalCite: A Principle Augmented Benchmark for Legal Citation Retrieval in Singapore Law GitHub: anonymousmeowmeow/SG LegalCite SG LegalCite is the first legal citation retrieval benchmark for Singapore law and the first benchmark to integrate explicit legal principles into the retrieval query across existing legal retrieval datasets. Dataset Description In common law systems, legal citation depends not only on factual similarity, but also on the legal principle for which a precedent is invoked. Existing benchmarks use case facts, citation context, or full judgments as queries, where the governing legal principle is often missing, only implicitly expressed, or entangled with broader context. As a result, models may retrieve precedents that are factually similar yet doctrinally irrelevant. SG LegalCite operationalises a new retrieval paradigm where cited cases are ranked based on queries that integrate case facts with explicit legal principles: [FACT] case facts + [PRINCIPLE] legal principle → cited case This formulation is particularly important for Singapore, where the legal system has evolved independently: only domestic precedents are binding, while foreign authorities serve…
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