From dissonance to insights: Dissecting disagreements in rationale construction for case outcome classification

S Xu, TYS Santosh, O Ichim, I Risini, B Plank… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In legal NLP, Case Outcome Classification (COC) must not only be accurate but also
trustworthy and explainable. Existing work in explainable COC has been limited to …

LexAbSumm: Aspect-based Summarization of Legal Decisions

TYS Santosh, M Aly, M Grabmair - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00594, 2024 - arxiv.org
Legal professionals frequently encounter long legal judgments that hold critical insights for
their work. While recent advances have led to automated summarization solutions for legal …

ChronosLex: Time-aware Incremental Training for Temporal Generalization of Legal Classification Tasks

TYS Santosh, TQ Vuong, M Grabmair - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.14211, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study investigates the challenges posed by the dynamic nature of legal multi-label text
classification tasks, where legal concepts evolve over time. Existing models often overlook …

Through the Lens of Split Vote: Exploring Disagreement, Difficulty and Calibration in Legal Case Outcome Classification

S Xu, TYS Santosh, O Ichim, B Plank… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In legal decisions, split votes (SV) occur when judges cannot reach a unanimous decision,
posing a difficulty for lawyers who must navigate diverse legal arguments and opinions. In …

ECtHR-PCR: A Dataset for Precedent Understanding and Prior Case Retrieval in the European Court of Human Rights

TYS Santosh, RG Haddad, M Grabmair - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00596, 2024 - arxiv.org
In common law jurisdictions, legal practitioners rely on precedents to construct arguments, in
line with the doctrine of\emph {stare decisis}. As the number of cases grow over the years …

LexAbSumm: Aspect-based Summarization of Legal Decisions

S Tyss, M Aly, M Grabmair - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Legal professionals frequently encounter long legal judgments that hold critical insights for
their work. While recent advances have led to automated summarization solutions for legal …