15 papers
AILQA: Evaluating AI-Driven Legal Question Answering Systems for the Indian Legal System
Shubham Kumar Nigam, Shubham Kumar Mishra, Noel Shallum +2
This comprehensive study introduces an advanced Artificial Intelligence for Indian Legal Question Answering (AILQA) system tailored to the Indian legal context. AILQA leverages a v…
NyayaMind- A Framework for Transparent Legal Reasoning and Judgment Prediction in the Indian Legal System
Parjanya Aditya Shukla, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Debtanu Datta +5
Court Judgment Prediction and Explanation (CJPE) aims to predict a judicial decision and provide a legally grounded explanation for a given case based on the facts, legal issues, a…
Structured Legal Document Generation in India: A Model-Agnostic Wrapper Approach with VidhikDastaavej
Shubham Kumar Nigam, Balaramamahanthi Deepak Patnaik, Noel Shallum +2
Automating legal document drafting can improve efficiency and reduce the burden of manual legal work. Yet, the structured generation of private legal documents remains underexplore…
Ayn: A Tiny yet Competitive Indian Legal Language Model Pretrained from Scratch
Mitodru Niyogi, Eric Gaussier, Arnab Bhattacharya
Decoder-only Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the model of choice for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Through instruction fine-tuning and prompting a…
Paramanu: Compact and Competitive Monolingual Language Models for Low-Resource Morphologically Rich Indian Languages
Mitodru Niyogi, Eric Gaussier, Arnab Bhattacharya
Multilingual large language models (LLMs) are expensive to pretrain and often suffer from imbalances across languages and datasets, English-centric bias, tokenizer oversegmentation…
ReGal: A First Look at PPO-based Legal AI for Judgment Prediction and Summarization in India
Shubham Kumar Nigam, Tanuj Tyagi, Siddharth Shukla +6
This paper presents an early exploration of reinforcement learning methodologies for legal AI in the Indian context. We introduce Reinforcement Learning-based Legal Reasoning (ReGa…