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cs.IREmpiricalRecentJul 24, 2026

Legal Nugget Extraction for Granular Retrieval over Long Jurisprudential Texts

Lucas Pereira, Erick Brito, Roberto Lotufo, Jayr Pereira

This paper explores the use of legal nuggets for dense retrieval over Brazilian legal collections, achieving significant improvements in two datasets.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.MARecentMay 27, 2026

LegalGraphRAG: Multi-Agent Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Legal Reasoning

Zerui Chen, Qinggang Zhang, Zhishang Xiang, Zhimin Wei +4 more

LegalGraphRAG introduces a multi-agent, hierarchical graph retrieval-augmented generation framework to overcome the limitations of traditional RAG in legal domains, achieving state-of-the-art reliable…

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cs.CLRecentMay 28, 2026

CanLegalRAGBench: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Canadian Case Law

Ethan Zhao, Maksym Taranukhin, Wei Cui, Moira Aikenhead +1 more

The paper introduces CanLegalRAGBench, a new Canadian legal QA benchmark, and evaluates RAG systems, finding that while open-source models are competitive, automatic evaluations struggle with nuanced…

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cs.CLcs.IREmpiricalRecentJul 7, 2026

Inject or Navigate? Token-Efficient Retrieval for LLM Analysis of Transactional Legal Documents

Mahmoud Hany, Mourad ElSheraey, Mahmoud Said, Peter Naoum

This paper compares three methods for answering questions over legal documents: full-corpus injection, embedding retrieval, and LLM navigation over a compact structured index. The results show that th…

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cs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026

TrafficRAG: A Multimodal RAG Framework for Traffic Accident Liability Determination

Xu Li, Zedong Fu, Xinyi Li, Xun Han

TrafficRAG is a multimodal retrieval-augmented framework that automates traffic accident liability determination by integrating visual evidence, structured legal knowledge, and advanced LLM reasoning.

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cs.CLcs.IRRecentJun 2, 2026

Re-Ranking Through an Attribution Lens for Citation Quality in Legal QA

Mohamed Hesham Elganayni, Selim Saleh

The paper introduces a cross-encoder re-ranker trained on attribution scores to improve the retrieval of highly relevant citation passages for legal question answering, outperforming standard semantic…

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cs.IREmpiricalRecentJul 6, 2026

Prompting Beats Fine-Tuning: Generative Expected Value Scoring for Statutory Term Retrieval

Alvin Wang, Jaromir Savelka

The paper compares two families of methods for ranking case-law sentences by their usefulness for explaining statutory concepts using ModernBERT and decoder-only models. Decoder-only models achieve th…

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cs.CLRecentMay 29, 2026

Bundesrecht: An Open Library and Corpus for German Statutory Reference Processing

Harshil Darji, Martin Heckelmann, Christina Kratsch, Gerard de Melo

The paper introduces 'bundesrecht,' an open-source, end-to-end pipeline for processing complex German statutory references, which parses, normalizes, and resolves raw citation strings into structured,…

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cs.AIcs.CLcs.CYRecentMay 29, 2026

On Wednesdays, We Ask Questions: Optimizing "Active Listening" in Automated Legal Triage and Referral

Quinten Steenhuis, Jacqueline Harvey

The paper evaluates an automated legal triage system (FETCH) that uses follow-up questions, demonstrating that while low-cost LLMs are effective for classification, generating high-quality questions r…

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cs.DLcs.CLRecentMay 31, 2026

Digging Up Citations: FOSSIL, a Dataset and Workflow for Reference Extraction in Law and the Humanities

Luca Foppiano, Christian Boulanger

The paper introduces FOSSIL, a new multilingual dataset and specialized workflow designed to significantly improve the extraction of citations embedded within complex footnotes common in law and human…

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Multi-Legal-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Legal Reasoning Across Jurisdictions, Languages, and Legal Traditions

Volodymyr Ovcharov

The paper introduces Multi-Legal-Bench, a novel cross-jurisdictional benchmark evaluating LLMs on five standardized legal reasoning tasks across six diverse countries, demonstrating that cross-lingual…

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

UA-Legal-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Ukrainian Legal Reasoning

Volodymyr Ovcharov

The paper introduces UA-Legal-Bench, a comprehensive Ukrainian legal reasoning benchmark built from a massive judicial corpus, demonstrating that LLM performance is highly task-dependent and that simp…

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cs.IRcs.CLcs.CRRecentMar 26, 2026

Supercharging Federated Intelligence Retrieval

Dimitris Stripelis, Patrick Foley, Mohammad Naseri, William Lindskog-Münzing +3 more

The paper introduces a secure Federated RAG system that enables confidential retrieval and LLM inference across distributed, private data silos.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMar 18, 2026

Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Security Incident Analysis

Xavier Cadet, Aditya Vikram Singh, Harsh Mamania, Edward Koh +5 more

The paper introduces a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that uses targeted query filtering and LLM semantic reasoning to accurately and cost-effectively analyze complex cybersecurity incide…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 20, 2026

Position: No Retroactive Cure for Infringement during Training

Satoru Utsunomiya, Masaru Isonuma, Junichiro Mori, Ichiro Sakata

The paper argues that post-hoc mitigation techniques like machine unlearning are insufficient to cure legal liability arising from the unlawful acquisition and training on copyrighted data, advocating…

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cs.CLcs.DLRecentMay 30, 2026

Citation Grounding: Detecting and Reducing LLM Citation Hallucinations via Legal Citation Graphs

Volodymyr Ovcharov

The paper introduces Citation Grounding (CG), a novel metric and framework, to systematically detect and reduce the hallucination of legal citations by verifying LLM outputs against a massive, structu…

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cs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026

RASER: Recoverability-Aware Selective Escalation Router for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Yuyang Li, Zihe Yan, Tobias Käfer

RASER introduces a family of cheap, router-based systems that selectively decide whether to perform expensive multi-hop retrieval, significantly reducing LLM token costs while maintaining state-of-the…

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

BenGER: Benchmarking LLM Systems on Subsumption-Based Legal Reasoning in German Law

Sebastian Nagl, Ann-Kristin Mayrhofer, Martin Heidebach, Aleyna Koçak +5 more

The paper introduces BenGER, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating LLMs on German legal reasoning, demonstrating that closed-flagship models perform best and that human-AI co-creation significantly…

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