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Transforming legal text into executable decision logic is a longstanding challenge in legal informatics. With the rise of LLMs, this task has gained renewed interest, but remains challenging due to requiring extensive manual coding and…

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This paper proposes LayoutLLM, a more flexible document analysis method for understanding imaged documents. Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks, such as document image classification and information extraction, have gained…

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In this work, we investigate whether improving task clarity can enhance reasoning ability of large language models, focusing on theorem proving in Coq. We introduce a concept-level metric to evaluate task clarity and show that adding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yanzhen Lu , Hanbin Yang , Xiaodie Wang , Ge Zhang , Biao Li , Chenxu Fu , Chao Li , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Interacting with the legal system and the government requires the assembly and analysis of various pieces of information that can be spread across different (paper) documents, such as forms, certificates and contracts (e.g. leases). This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hannes Westermann , Jaromir Savelka

The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable greater study of this question, we present LegalBench: a…

SemEval-2024 Task 8 introduces the challenge of identifying machine-generated texts from diverse Large Language Models (LLMs) in various languages and domains. The task comprises three subtasks: binary classification in monolingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Feng Xiong , Thanet Markchom , Ziwei Zheng , Subin Jung , Varun Ojha , Huizhi Liang

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely employed across various application domains, yet their black-box nature poses significant challenges to understanding how these models process input data internally to make predictions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hangfeng He , Weijie J. Su

With the development of large-scale Language Models (LLM), fine-tuning pre-trained LLM has become a mainstream paradigm for solving downstream tasks of natural language processing. However, training a language model in the legal field…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chun-Hsien Lin , Pu-Jen Cheng

Reasoning-focused large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving across various domains, yet their capabilities in handling complex legal problems remains underexplored. In this paper, we introduce Unilaw-R1, a large language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hua Cai , Shuang Zhao , Liang Zhang , Xuli Shen , Qing Xu , Weilin Shen , Zihao Wen , Tianke Ban

While decoder-only Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently dominated the NLP landscape, encoder-only architectures remain a cost-effective and parameter-efficient standard for discriminative tasks. However, classic encoders like BERT are…

Efficient processing of long contexts has been a persistent pursuit in Natural Language Processing. With the growing number of long documents, dialogues, and other textual data, it is important to develop Long Context Language Models…

This paper investigates the factuality of large language models (LLMs) as knowledge bases in the legal domain, in a realistic usage scenario: we allow for acceptable variations in the answer, and let the model abstain from answering when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rajaa El Hamdani , Thomas Bonald , Fragkiskos Malliaros , Nils Holzenberger , Fabian Suchanek

Semantic entity recognition is an important task in the field of visually-rich document understanding. It distinguishes the semantic types of text by analyzing the position relationship between text nodes and the relation between text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Qiwei Li , Zuchao Li , Ping Wang , Haojun Ai , Hai Zhao

Three publicly-available LLM specifically designed for legal tasks have been implemented and shown that classification accuracy can benefit from training over legal corpora, but why and how? Here we use two publicly-available legal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Richard K. Belew

Availability of challenging benchmarks is the key to advancement of AI in a specific field.Since Legal Text is significantly different than normal English text, there is a need to create separate Natural Language Processing benchmarks for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Prathamesh Kalamkar , Janani Venugopalan Ph. D. , Vivek Raghavan Ph. D

Contextualized representations trained over large raw text data have given remarkable improvements for NLP tasks including question answering and reading comprehension. There have been works showing that syntactic, semantic and word sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Xuhui Zhou , Yue Zhang , Leyang Cui , Dandan Huang

This paper describes our submission to subtask a and b of SemEval-2020 Task 4. For subtask a, we use a ALBERT based model with improved input form to pick out the common sense statement from two statement candidates. For subtask b, we use a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Shilei Liu , Yu Guo , Bochao Li , Feiliang Ren

While large language models (LLMs) have showcased impressive capabilities, they struggle with addressing legal queries due to the intricate complexities and specialized expertise required in the legal field. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zhiwei Fei , Songyang Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen , Dawei Zhu , Xiao Wang , Maosong Cao , Fengzhe Zhou , Yining Li , Wenwei Zhang , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen , Jidong Ge

Recent advances in language models have substantially improved Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Although widely used benchmarks suggest that Large Language Models (LLMs) can effectively disambiguate, their practical applicability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Deshan Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough , Saman Jayasinghe

Processing complex and ambiguous named entities is a challenging research problem, but it has not received sufficient attention from the natural language processing community. In this short paper, we present our participation in the English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ngoc Minh Lai