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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 96/10

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From Statute to Control Flow: Span-Grounded Deontic Trees for Defeasible Scope Parsing

Researchers introduce NormBench, a benchmark with 2,290 legal provisions across multiple languages, and Span-Grounded Deontic Trees (SG-DT), a structured representation method designed to address Silent Scope Omission—where AI systems appear compliant but fail to apply nested exceptions correctly. Testing reveals that frontier LLMs struggle with recursive defeater chains and struggle to assemble correct logical control flow despite retrieving relevant source material.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 25/10

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Enhancing BiGRU with a KAN Block for Legal Document Classification and Summarization

Researchers have developed a novel neural architecture combining Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) with BiGRU models for classifying and summarizing legal documents in multilingual, low-resource settings. Tested on Bengali, English, and transliterated Bengali legal documents from Bangladesh, the hybrid model achieved 67.96% classification accuracy while demonstrating that KAN integration improved performance by over 10 percentage points.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 296/10

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

Researchers introduce Multi-Legal-Bench, a cross-jurisdictional benchmark evaluating large language models on legal reasoning tasks across six European countries, four language families, and 134 million court decisions. The study reveals that few-shot transfer effectiveness depends on label-set alignment rather than linguistic proximity, and that model architecture matters more than tokenizer efficiency for cross-lingual legal NLP performance.