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title = "Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in e{D}iscovery",
author = "Lahiri, Sounak and
Pai, Sumit and
Weninger, Tim and
Bhattacharya, Sanmitra",
editor = "Rehm, Georg and
Li, Yunyao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-industry.46/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.46",
pages = "661--671",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-288-6",
abstract = "Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) requires identifying relevant documents from vast collections for legal production requests. While artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have improved document review efficiency, current methods still struggle with legal entities, citations, and complex legal artifacts. To address these challenges, we introduce DISCOvery Graph (DISCOG), an emerging system that integrates knowledge graphs for enhanced document ranking and classification, augmented by LLM-driven reasoning. DISCOG outperforms strong baselines in F1-score, precision, and recall across both balanced and imbalanced datasets. In real-world deployments, it has reduced litigation-related document review costs by approximately 98{\%}, demonstrating significant business impact."
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%T Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery
%A Lahiri, Sounak
%A Pai, Sumit
%A Weninger, Tim
%A Bhattacharya, Sanmitra
%Y Rehm, Georg
%Y Li, Yunyao
%S Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-288-6
%F lahiri-etal-2025-learning
%X Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) requires identifying relevant documents from vast collections for legal production requests. While artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have improved document review efficiency, current methods still struggle with legal entities, citations, and complex legal artifacts. To address these challenges, we introduce DISCOvery Graph (DISCOG), an emerging system that integrates knowledge graphs for enhanced document ranking and classification, augmented by LLM-driven reasoning. DISCOG outperforms strong baselines in F1-score, precision, and recall across both balanced and imbalanced datasets. In real-world deployments, it has reduced litigation-related document review costs by approximately 98%, demonstrating significant business impact.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.46
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-industry.46/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-industry.46
%P 661-671
Markdown (Informal)
[Learning from Litigation: Graphs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-industry.46/) (Lahiri et al., ACL 2025)
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