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most citedNLP-based Automated Compliance Checking of Data Processing Agreements against GDPR

7 citations · 14 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

How Much Do Legal RAG Systems Still Hallucinate?

Souvick Das, Sallam Abualhaija, Domenico Bianculli

Hallucination is a major challenge for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in the legal domain, where ungrounded answers can lead to serious consequences. To better unders…

cs.CL2026

Fine-grained Claim-level RAG Benchmark for Law

Souvick Das, Sallam Abualhaija, Domenico Bianculli

The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) is shifting semantic search toward a question-answering paradigm, where users ask questions and LLMs generate responses. In high-…

cs.SE2025

LLM-Driven Cost-Effective Requirements Change Impact Analysis

Romina Etezadi, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora +1

Requirements are inherently subject to change throughout the software development lifecycle. Within the limited budget available to requirements engineers, manually identifying the…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Classifier or Prompt: A Case Study on Legal Requirements Traceability

Romina Etezadi, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora +1

New regulations are introduced to ensure software development aligns with ethical concerns and protects public safety. Showing compliance requires tracing requirements to legal pro…

cs.SE2024

GDPR-Relevant Privacy Concerns in Mobile Apps Research: A Systematic Literature Review

Orlando Amaral Cejas, Nicolas Sannier, Sallam Abualhaija +2

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is considered as the benchmark in the European Union (EU) for privacy and data protection standards. Since before its entry into force…

cs.SE2023

A Multi-solution Study on GDPR AI-enabled Completeness Checking of DPAs

Muhammad Ilyas Azeem, Sallam Abualhaija

Specifying legal requirements for software systems to ensure their compliance with the applicable regulations is a major concern to requirements engineering (RE). Personal data whi…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

Legal Requirements Analysis

Sallam Abualhaija, Marcello Ceci, Lionel Briand

Modern software has been an integral part of everyday activities in many disciplines and application contexts. Introducing intelligent automation by leveraging artificial intellige…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Replication in Requirements Engineering: the NLP for RE Case

Sallam Abualhaija, F. BaŞAk Aydemir, Fabiano Dalpiaz +4

[Context]} Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been widely applied in the requirements engineering (RE) field to support tasks such as classification and ambiguity de…

cs.SE2023★ 2 cited

AI-based Question Answering Assistance for Analyzing Natural-language Requirements

Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora +1

By virtue of being prevalently written in natural language (NL), requirements are prone to various defects, e.g., inconsistency and incompleteness. As such, requirements are freque…

cs.SE2022★ 7 cited

NLP-based Automated Compliance Checking of Data Processing Agreements against GDPR

Orlando Amaral, Muhammad Ilyas Azeem, Sallam Abualhaija +1

Processing personal data is regulated in Europe by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through data processing agreements (DPAs). Checking the compliance of DPAs contribu…

cs.SE2022

COREQQA -- A COmpliance REQuirements Understanding using Question Answering Tool

Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora, Lionel Briand

We introduce COREQQA, a tool for assisting requirements engineers in acquiring a better understanding of compliance requirements by means of automated Question Answering. Extractin…

cs.SE2022

TAPHSIR: Towards AnaPHoric Ambiguity Detection and ReSolution In Requirements

Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora +1

We introduce TAPHSIR, a tool for anaphoric ambiguity detection and anaphora resolution in requirements. TAPHSIR facilities reviewing the use of pronouns in a requirements specifica…

cs.SE2022

WikiDoMiner: Wikipedia Domain-specific Miner

Saad Ezzini, Sallam Abualhaija, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

We introduce WikiDoMiner, a tool for automatically generating domain-specific corpora by crawling Wikipedia. WikiDoMiner helps requirements engineers create an external knowledge r…