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cs.CL2026

Who Checks the Citations? Benchmarking Legal Hallucination Detection

Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson

Attorneys, judges, and pro se filers increasingly use AI to draft legal documents, yet these tools frequently fabricate citations. Despite predictions that newer models would hallu…

cs.CL2024

Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints

Dominik Stammbach, Philine Widmer, Eunjung Cho +2

Large language models such as ChatGPT exhibit striking political biases. If users query them about political information, they often take a normative stance. To overcome this, we a…

cs.CL2024

AFaCTA: Assisting the Annotation of Factual Claim Detection with Reliable LLM Annotators

Jingwei Ni, Minjing Shi, Dominik Stammbach +3

With the rise of generative AI, automated fact-checking methods to combat misinformation are becoming more and more important. However, factual claim detection, the first step in a…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models

Markus Leippold, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi, Dominik Stammbach +10

This paper presents Climinator, a novel AI-based tool designed to automate the fact-checking of climate change claims. Utilizing an array of Large Language Models (LLMs) informed b…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

LePaRD: A Large-Scale Dataset of Judges Citing Precedents

Robert Mahari, Dominik Stammbach, Elliott Ash +1

We present the Legal Passage Retrieval Dataset LePaRD. LePaRD is a massive collection of U.S. federal judicial citations to precedent in context. The dataset aims to facilitate wor…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Translating Legalese: Enhancing Public Understanding of Court Opinions with Legal Summarizers

Elliott Ash, Aniket Kesari, Suresh Naidu +2

Judicial opinions are written to be persuasive and could build public trust in court decisions, yet they can be difficult for non-experts to understand. We present a pipeline for u…

cs.CL2023

The Law and NLP: Bridging Disciplinary Disconnects

Robert Mahari, Dominik Stammbach, Elliott Ash +1

Legal practice is intrinsically rooted in the fabric of language, yet legal practitioners and scholars have been slow to adopt tools from natural language processing (NLP). At the…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

CHATREPORT: Democratizing Sustainability Disclosure Analysis through LLM-based Tools

Jingwei Ni, Julia Bingler, Chiara Colesanti-Senni +10

In the face of climate change, are companies really taking substantial steps toward more sustainable operations? A comprehensive answer lies in the dense, information-rich landscap…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Paradigm Shift in Sustainability Disclosure Analysis: Empowering Stakeholders with CHATREPORT, a Language Model-Based Tool

Jingwei Ni, Julia Bingler, Chiara Colesanti-Senni +10

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) with expert knowledge to automate the analysis of corporate sustainability reports by benchmarking th…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Legal Extractive Summarization of U.S. Court Opinions

Emmanuel Bauer, Dominik Stammbach, Nianlong Gu +1

This paper tackles the task of legal extractive summarization using a dataset of 430K U.S. court opinions with key passages annotated. According to automated summary quality metric…

cs.CL2023

Revisiting Automated Topic Model Evaluation with Large Language Models

Dominik Stammbach, Vilém Zouhar, Alexander Hoyle +2

Topic models are used to make sense of large text collections. However, automatically evaluating topic model output and determining the optimal number of topics both have been long…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Enhancing Large Language Models with Climate Resources

Mathias Kraus, Julia Anna Bingler, Markus Leippold +5

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed the landscape of artificial intelligence by demonstrating their ability in generating human-like text across diverse top…

cs.CL2022

Environmental Claim Detection

Dominik Stammbach, Nicolas Webersinke, Julia Anna Bingler +2

To transition to a green economy, environmental claims made by companies must be reliable, comparable, and verifiable. To analyze such claims at scale, automated methods are needed…

cs.CL2022

Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data

Dominik Stammbach, Maria Antoniak, Elliott Ash

This paper shows how to use large-scale pre-trained language models to extract character roles from narrative texts without training data. Queried with a zero-shot question-answeri…

cs.CL2021

The Choice of Knowledge Base in Automated Claim Checking

Dominik Stammbach, Boya Zhang, Elliott Ash

Automated claim checking is the task of determining the veracity of a claim given evidence found in a knowledge base of trustworthy facts. While previous work has taken the knowled…

cs.CL2021

DocSCAN: Unsupervised Text Classification via Learning from Neighbors

Dominik Stammbach, Elliott Ash

We introduce DocSCAN, a completely unsupervised text classification approach using Semantic Clustering by Adopting Nearest-Neighbors (SCAN). For each document, we obtain semantical…