4 papers
Re-Ranking Through an Attribution Lens for Citation Quality in Legal QA
Mohamed Hesham Elganayni, Selim Saleh
Retrieval-augmented generation systems for legal question answering typically retrieve passages based on semantic similarity and provide them to a language model, which then genera…
Exploiting LLM-as-a-Judge Disposition on Free Text Legal QA via Prompt Optimization
Mohamed Hesham Elganayni, Runsheng Chen, Sebastian Nagl +1
This work explores the role of prompt design and judge selection in LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations of free text legal question answering. We examine whether automatic task prompt optim…
CourtPressGER: A German Court Decision to Press Release Summarization Dataset
Sebastian Nagl, Mohamed Elganayni, Melanie Pospisil +1
Official court press releases from Germany's highest courts present and explain judicial rulings to the public, as well as to expert audiences. Prior NLP efforts emphasize technica…
Incorporating Precedents for Legal Judgement Prediction on European Court of Human Rights Cases
T. Y. S. S. Santosh, Mohamed Hesham Elganayni, StanisÅaw Sójka +1
Inspired by the legal doctrine of stare decisis, which leverages precedents (prior cases) for informed decision-making, we explore methods to integrate them into LJP models. To fac…