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cs.CL20241 cited

From Citations to Criticality: Predicting Legal Decision Influence in the Multilingual Swiss Jurisprudence

Ronja Stern, Ken Kawamura, Matthias Stürmer +2

Many court systems are overwhelmed all over the world, leading to huge backlogs of pending cases. Effective triage systems, like those in emergency rooms, could ensure proper prior…

cs.CL20241 cited

Unlocking Legal Knowledge: A Multilingual Dataset for Judicial Summarization in Switzerland

Luca Rolshoven, Vishvaksenan Rasiah, Srinanda Brügger Bose +4

Legal research depends on headnotes: concise summaries that help lawyers quickly identify relevant cases. Yet, many court decisions lack them due to the high cost of manual annotat…

cs.CL20241 cited

Towards Explainability and Fairness in Swiss Judgement Prediction: Benchmarking on a Multilingual Dataset

Santosh T. Y. S. S, Nina Baumgartner, Matthias Stürmer +2

The assessment of explainability in Legal Judgement Prediction (LJP) systems is of paramount importance in building trustworthy and transparent systems, particularly considering th…

cs.CL20232 cited

Automatic Anonymization of Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rulings

Joel Niklaus, Robin Mamié, Matthias Stürmer +2

Releasing court decisions to the public relies on proper anonymization to protect all involved parties, where necessary. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court relies on an existing syste…

cs.CL20232 cited

Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents

Ramona Christen, Anastassia Shaitarova, Matthias Stürmer +1

Resolving the scope of a negation within a sentence is a challenging NLP task. The complexity of legal texts and the lack of annotated in-domain negation corpora pose challenges fo…

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Anonymity at Risk? Assessing Re-Identification Capabilities of Large Language Models

Alex Nyffenegger, Matthias Stürmer, Joel Niklaus

Anonymity of both natural and legal persons in court rulings is a critical aspect of privacy protection in the European Union and Switzerland. With the advent of LLMs, concerns abo…