Can Voyage Law-2 work well for Spanish legal RAG?
A legal RAG system may use a law-focused such as to find relevant legal material. The main concern is whether the model was trained mostly on English text and whether that would hurt search quality for Spanish legal documents.
In legal work, small wording differences matter, so language fit can directly affect the quality of retrieved documents and later answers. Before using it in , a small Spanish test set should compare whether it finds the right legal documents against other multilingual options.
Key points
- RAG quality depends heavily on the used for search.
- is being considered because it is focused on legal text.
- If the model is mainly English-trained, Spanish legal search may be weaker.
- A small Spanish test set should be used before choosing the model.
- Better can lower token waste by keeping irrelevant documents out of the LLM prompt.