Overview

COLIEE 2025

Welcome to the 12th Competition on Legal Information Extraction and Entailment (COLIEE-2025).

This competition is run in association with the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2025 (opens in a new tab). June 20, 2025, Northwestern University, Chicago + Online (Hybrid)

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Registration and Contact

Please register here by submitting necessary forms. If you have any questions, please contact coliee_participation@nii.ac.jp.

Competition Tasks

COLIEE-2025 includes four tasks:

Task 1: Legal Case Retrieval

Task 2: Legal Case Entailment

Task 3: Statute Law Retrieval

Task 4: Legal Textual Entailment

Pilot Task: A pilot task featuring a Japanese Legal Judgment Prediction.

Accepted Papers

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at COLIEE 2025:

  • KIS: COLIEE 2025 Task 4 Solver Using Japanese LLM
    Takaaki Onaga, Yoshinobu Kano

  • SIL@COLIEE 2025: A Cascading Framework for Finding Relevant Case Laws
    Bhavya Jain, Pooja Harde, Taha Sadikot, Eric Namit Kujur, Sarika Jain

  • IRNLPUI at COLIEE 2025: Utilization of LLMs for Statute Law Retrieval and Legal Entailment Task
    Bryan Tjandra, Made Swastika Nata Negara, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono

  • LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, and Hybrid Search: Task-Specific Approaches to Legal AI in COLIEE
    Sabine Wehnert, Bhavya Baburaj Chovatta Valappil, Ernesto William De Luca

  • Investigating Expert-Based Prompt Engineering for Legal Entailment Tasks
    Cor Steging, Ludi van Leeuwen, Tadeusz Zbiegień, Dries Wedda, Junjun Liu

  • Leveraging Rhetorical Role-Based Summarization for Legal Case Retrieval
    Tebo K. Leburu-Dingalo, Edwin Thuma, Gontlafetse Mosweunyane, Nkwebi P. Motlogelwa, Monkgogi N. Mudongo

  • A ModernBERT-Based System by Team KIS for the COLIEE 2025 Pilot Task: Toward Robust Evaluation in Legal Judgment Prediction
    Kazuma Kadowaki, Yoshinobu Kano

  • AIIR Lab at COLIEE 2025: Exploring Applications of Large Language Models for Legal Text Retrieval and Entailment
    Deiby Wu, Sarah Lawrence, Behrooz Mansouri

  • From TF-IDF to Instruction-Tuned LLMs: Hybrid Legal Reasoning Systems for COLIEE 2025
    Euijin Baek, Jiayi Dai, H M Quamran Hasan, Yeji Kim, Housam Khalifa Bashier Babiker, Mi-Young Kim, Randy Goebel

  • NOWJ@COLIEE 2025: A Multi-stage Framework Integrating Embedding Models and Large Language Models for Legal Retrieval and Entailment
    Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Tan-Minh Nguyen, Xuan-Bach Le, Tuan-Kiet Le, Khanh-Huyen Nguyen, Ha-Thanh Nguyen, Thi-Hai-Yen Vuong, Le-Minh Nguyen

  • UQLegalAI@COLIEE2025: Advancing Legal Case Retrieval with Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks
    Yanran Tang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

  • JNLP at COLIEE 2025: Hybrid Large Language Model-based Framework for Legal Information Retrieval and Entailment
    Hai Nguyen, Hiep Nguyen, Trang Pham, Minh Nguyen, An Trieu, Dinh-Truong Do, Nguyen-Khang Le, Le-Minh Nguyen

  • CAPTAIN at COLIEE 2025: Enhancing Legal Text Processing and Structural Analysis with Large Language Models
    Dat Nguyen, Minh-Phuong Nguyen, Quang-Huy Chu, Son T. Luu, Nguyen-Hoang Chu, Trung Vo, Le-Minh Nguyen

  • Hierarchical and Referential Structure-Aware Retrieval for Statutory Articles using Graph Neural Networks
    Takao Mizuno, Yoshinobu Kano

Note: Highlighted names in yellow indicate the presenters for each paper.

Citations

For the overview and fundamental ideas of the COLIEE, please cite the paper below:

  • Rabelo, J., Kim, M. Y., Goebel, R., Yoshioka, M., Kano, Y., & Satoh, K. (2022). Overview and Discussion of the Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE) 2021. Pages 111-133. DOI: 10.1007/s12626-022-00105-z

Recommended citation for COLIEE 2025 (overview paper of COLIEE 2025) will be informed before the submission of the final paper.

Committee

Organizers

  • Ken Satoh (Center for Juris-informatics, ROIS-DS , Japan)
  • Randy Goebel (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Mi-Young Kim (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka University, Japan)
  • Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  • Juliano Rabelo (Jurisage and University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Calum Kwan (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Hiroaki Yamada (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)

Program Committee

  • Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Hannes Westermann (University of Montreal, Canada)
  • Hiroaki Yamada (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)
  • Jaromir Savelka (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Josef Valvoda (Københavns Universitet, Denmark)
  • Juliano Rabelo (Jurisage and University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Julien Rossi (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Ken Satoh (Center for Juris-informatics, ROIS-DS , Japan)
  • Makoto Nakamura (Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Maria Navas Loro (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
  • Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  • Mi-Young Kim (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Nguyen Le Minh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Randy Goebel (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Sabine Wehnert (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
  • Satoshi Tojo (Asia University, Japan)
  • Vu Tran (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka University, Japan)
  • Yunqiu Shao (Tsinghua University, China)
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