3 papers
cs.AI2026
Shortcut Learning in Legal Judgment Prediction: Empirical Evidence from the UK Employment Tribunal
Joe Watson, Joana Ribeiro de Faria, Marcus Tomalin +6
Current Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) is constrained by its reliance on post-hoc judicial materials, increasing the likelihood that models perform retrospective classification ra…
cs.CL2026
Augmenting Rating-Scale Measures with Text-Derived Items Using the Information-Determined Scoring (IDS) Framework
Joe Watson, Ivan O'Connor, Chia-Wen Chen +3
Psychological assessments commonly rely on rating-scale items, which require respondents to condense complex experiences into predefined categories. Although rich, unstructured tex…
cs.RO2025
Building Gradient by Gradient: Decentralised Energy Functions for Bimanual Robot Assembly
Alexander L. Mitchell, Joe Watson, Ingmar Posner
There are many challenges in bimanual assembly, including high-level sequencing, multi-robot coordination, and low-level, contact-rich operations such as component mating. Task and…