3 papers
cs.CL2025
A Reasoning-Focused Legal Retrieval Benchmark
Lucia Zheng, Neel Guha, Javokhir Arifov +5
As the legal community increasingly examines the use of large language models (LLMs) for various legal applications, legal AI developers have turned to retrieval-augmented LLMs ("R…
cs.CL2025
AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County
Faiz Surani, Mirac Suzgun, Vyoma Raman +3
Legal reform can be challenging in light of the volume, complexity, and interdependence of laws, codes, and records. One salient example of this challenge is the effort to restrict…
cs.CL2025
LawInstruct: A Resource for Studying Language Model Adaptation to the Legal Domain
Joel Niklaus, Lucia Zheng, Arya D. McCarthy +7
Instruction tuning is an important step in making language models useful for direct user interaction. However, the legal domain is underrepresented in typical instruction datasets…