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LeXFiles and LegalLAMA: Facilitating English Multinational Legal Language Model Development
Ilias Chalkidis, Nicolas Garneau, Catalina Goanta +2
In this work, we conduct a detailed analysis on the performance of legal-oriented pre-trained language models (PLMs). We examine the interplay between their original objective, acq…
Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain
Dirk Hartung, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito +3
We summarize the current state of the field of NLP & Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a…
GPT as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of (AI)CPA Capabilities
Jillian Bommarito, Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz +1
The global economy is increasingly dependent on knowledge workers to meet the needs of public and private organizations. While there is no single definition of knowledge work, orga…
GPT Takes the Bar Exam
Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz
Nearly all jurisdictions in the United States require a professional license exam, commonly referred to as "the Bar Exam," as a precondition for law practice. To even sit for the e…
Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting
Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf +2
Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the comprehensibility and maintaina…
LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English
Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung +4
Laws and their interpretations, legal arguments and agreements\ are typically expressed in writing, leading to the production of vast corpora of legal text. Their analysis, which i…