5 papers
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…
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…
One Law, Many Languages: Benchmarking Multilingual Legal Reasoning for Judicial Support
Ronja Stern, Vishvaksenan Rasiah, Veton Matoshi +5
Recent strides in Large Language Models (LLMs) have saturated many Natural Language Processing (NLP) benchmarks, emphasizing the need for more challenging ones to properly assess L…
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…
MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus
Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Matthias Stürmer +2
Large, high-quality datasets are crucial for training Large Language Models (LLMs). However, so far, there are few datasets available for specialized critical domains such as law a…