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most citedLAR-ECHR: A New Legal Argument Reasoning Task and Dataset for Cases of the European Court of Human Rights

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cs.IR2026

GreekBarRetrieval: A Benchmark for Greek Statutory Retrieval

Ernest Beta, Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis +1

Statutory retrieval is necessary for citation-grounded legal question answering, but remains underexplored for Greek. We introduce GreekBarRetrieval, a public retrieval benchmark d…

cs.CL2026

The Grounding Gap: How LLMs Anchor the Meaning of Abstract Concepts Differently from Humans

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

Abstract concepts - justice, theory, availability - have no single perceivable referent; in the human brain, their meaning emerges from a web of experiences, affect, and social con…

cs.CL2025

GreekBarBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Free-Text Legal Reasoning and Citations

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis, Nikolaos Aletras +1

We introduce GreekBarBench, a benchmark that evaluates LLMs on legal questions across five different legal areas from the Greek Bar exams, requiring citations to statutory articles…

cs.CL2024

AUEB-Archimedes at RIRAG-2025: Is obligation concatenation really all you need?

Ioannis Chasandras, Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Ion Androutsopoulos

This paper presents the systems we developed for RIRAG-2025, a shared task that requires answering regulatory questions by retrieving relevant passages. The generated answers are e…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

LAR-ECHR: A New Legal Argument Reasoning Task and Dataset for Cases of the European Court of Human Rights

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis, Ion Androutsopoulos

We present Legal Argument Reasoning (LAR), a novel task designed to evaluate the legal reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The task requires selecting the corre…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Local Explanations and Self-Explanations for Assessing Faithfulness in black-box LLMs

Christos Fragkathoulas, Odysseas S. Chlapanis

This paper introduces a novel task to assess the faithfulness of large language models (LLMs) using local perturbations and self-explanations. Many LLMs often require additional co…

cs.CL2024

Archimedes-AUEB at SemEval-2024 Task 5: LLM explains Civil Procedure

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Dimitrios Galanis

The SemEval task on Argument Reasoning in Civil Procedure is challenging in that it requires understanding legal concepts and inferring complex arguments. Currently, most Large Lan…

cs.CL2022

Adapted Multimodal BERT with Layer-wise Fusion for Sentiment Analysis

Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Alexandros Potamianos

Multimodal learning pipelines have benefited from the success of pretrained language models. However, this comes at the cost of increased model parameters. In this work, we propose…