Bringing order into the realm of Transformer-based language models for artificial intelligence and law

CM Greco, A Tagarelli - Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2023 - Springer
Transformer-based language models (TLMs) have widely been recognized to be a cutting-
edge technology for the successful development of deep-learning-based solutions to …

Unsupervised layer-wise score aggregation for textual ood detection

M Darrin, G Staerman, EDC Gomes… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a rapidly growing field due to new robustness
and security requirements driven by an increased number of AI-based systems. Existing …

Lextreme: A multi-lingual and multi-task benchmark for the legal domain

J Niklaus, V Matoshi, P Rani, A Galassi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Lately, propelled by the phenomenal advances around the transformer architecture, the
legal NLP field has enjoyed spectacular growth. To measure progress, well curated and …

Processing long legal documents with pre-trained transformers: Modding legalbert and longformer

D Mamakas, P Tsotsi, I Androutsopoulos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Pre-trained Transformers currently dominate most NLP tasks. They impose, however, limits
on the maximum input length (512 sub-words in BERT), which are too restrictive in the legal …

ClassActionPrediction: A challenging benchmark for legal judgment prediction of class action cases in the US

G Semo, D Bernsohn, B Hagag, G Hayat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The research field of Legal Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been very active
recently, with Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) becoming one of the most extensively …

Scale: Scaling up the complexity for advanced language model evaluation

V Rasiah, R Stern, V Matoshi, M Stürmer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent strides in Large Language Models (LLMs) have saturated many NLP benchmarks
(even professional domain-specific ones), emphasizing the need for novel, more …

MultiLegalSBD: a multilingual legal sentence boundary detection dataset

T Brugger, M Stürmer, J Niklaus - Proceedings of the Nineteenth …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) is one of the foundational building blocks of Natural
Language Processing (NLP), with incorrectly split sentences heavily influencing the output …

Towards Explainability and Fairness in Swiss Judgement Prediction: Benchmarking on a Multilingual Dataset

N Baumgartner, M Stürmer, M Grabmair… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The assessment of explainability in Legal Judgement Prediction (LJP) systems is of
paramount importance in building trustworthy and transparent systems, particularly …

Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents

R Christen, A Shaitarova, M Stürmer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Resolving the scope of a negation within a sentence is a challenging NLP task. The
complexity of legal texts and the lack of annotated in-domain negation corpora pose …

Prediction of Turkish Constitutional Court Decisions with Explainable Artificial Intelligence

T Turan, E Küçüksille, NK Alagöz - Bilge International Journal of …, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Using artificial intelligence in law is a topic that has attracted attention in recent years. This
study aims to classify the case decisions taken by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of …