arXiv Computation and Language

Figurative Justice: Detecting metaphors in Hindi judgements with qualitative assessment and transformers

arXiv AI
Aug 11

PROSLEX: A Novel Dataset for Expert-Annotated Legal Statute Prediction for Indian Judiciary

arXiv:2608. 08830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legal Statute Prediction (LSP) involves automatically identifying relevant legal statutes given factual descriptions in legal documents, typically framed as a multi-label classification task within natural language processing and information retrieval research.

By Subinay Adhikary, Upal Bhattacharya, Vivek Kumar Singh, Anurag Sharma, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Suvasis Das, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

AILQA: Evaluating AI-Driven Legal Question Answering Systems for the Indian Legal System

This comprehensive study introduces an advanced Artificial Intelligence for Indian Legal Question Answering (AILQA) system tailored to the Indian legal context. AILQA leverages a variety of embedding and generative models, including recent Large Language Models (LLMs), to address the unique challenges posed by the intricate and diverse nature of Indian legal texts and to enhance the accuracy and reliability of responses to legal questions.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16

AraMIP: Extending MIPVU Towards Metaphor Identification in Arabic

AraMIP introduces a new guideline for annotating metaphors in Arabic, building upon the established MIPVU framework and tailoring it to Arabic’s linguistic features. The authors distinguish three figurative types—Isti'ara (metaphor), kinaya (metonymy/indirect expression), and tashbih (simile)—and apply the procedure to a pilot dataset of 300 sentences (5,277 words). Their analysis highlights Arabic‑specific challenges such as morphological complexity, inconsistent dictionary sense ordering, and a lack of standardized contextual materials for annotators.

By Mandar Marathe, Manar Ali, Sara Nabhani, Raia Abu Ahmad, Ibrahim Baroud, Omar Momen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

CLASE: A Hybrid Method for Chinese Legalese Stylistic Evaluation

CLASE is a hybrid evaluation method for Chinese legal text that combines linguistic feature-based scores with experience-guided LLM-as-a-judge scores. It learns from contrastive pairs of authentic legal documents and their LLM-generated counterparts, enabling transparent, reference-free assessment of stylistic quality. Experiments on 200 Chinese legal documents show that CLASE aligns better with human judgments than traditional metrics and offers interpretable score breakdowns and improvement suggestions.

By Yiran Rex Ma, Yuxiao Ye, Huiyuan Xie
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

LEGO: Synergizing Expert GraphRAG and Expert Chain-of-Thought for Legal Reasoning

LEGO is a dual‑module framework that combines a Legal Expert GraphRAG system with an expert Chain‑of‑Thought approach to enhance complex legal reasoning. The GraphRAG component uses an expert‑annotated civil code graph and a greedy normative‑coverage retrieval algorithm to extract relevant provision subgraphs, while the Chain‑of‑Thought module structures retrieved provisions and case facts into a Provision‑Fact‑Conclusion reasoning flow. Using a Qwen3‑8B backbone, LEGO achieves 40.53% exact‑match accuracy on LawExamQA_Civil, surpassing baseline RAG and CoT models and matching larger models on multi‑hop and open‑ended benchmarks, with ablation studies confirming the complementary benefits of both modules.

By Qingjing Chen, Junkai Zhang, Shaochun Wang, Jiahao Ding, Siyuan Zheng, Yukun Yan, Zhi Zheng, Antonino Rotolo, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen