Staff profile

PhD candidate researching the intersection of law and natural language processing, with a focus on developing and evaluating AI systems for core legal NLP tasks. This includes Statute Law Retrieval, Legal Case Retrieval, Legal Case Entailment, Legal Textual Entailment, and Legal Judgment Prediction. My work spans legal information retrieval, reasoning, and generation, with an emphasis on domain-specific adaptations and precision in legal understanding. 

Journal Article

• Neural reranking for UK statutory retrieval: Provision-level evaluation and an open distilled model
  
  Alshehri, A. S., Eken, C., Bencomo, N., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2026). Neural reranking for UK statutory retrieval: Provision-level evaluation and an open distilled model. Artificial Intelligence and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-025-09501-6