A Summary of the ALQAC 2023 Competition

This paper presents an overview of the third edition of the Automated Legal Question Answering Competition (ALQAC 2023). The primary objective of ALQAC is to address challenges related to processing legal texts in languages with limited linguistic resources. This year's competition focuses on two specific tasks involving Vietnamese statute law documents: Legal Document Retrieval (Task 1) and Legal Question Answering (Task 2). In Task 1, participants are tasked with developing systems capable of retrieving pertinent legal articles in response to a given legal question. In Task 2, the challenge involves creating systems that can provide accurate answers to legal questions. The competition received participation from 5 teams in Task 1, submitting a total of 15 runs, while Task 2 had 4 teams participating with 12 runs. This paper offers a comprehensive description of the designated tasks along with a description of the approaches adopted by each participating team. Furthermore, the competition results are presented, followed by a thorough analysis and discussion.