Long-Context Long-Form Question Answering for Legal Domain
#arXiv #Legal Question Answering #Long-Context AI #LegalTech #Document Layout Analysis #Machine Learning #Information Retrieval
📌 Key Takeaways
- Researchers have introduced a new approach to long-form legal question answering via a study on arXiv.
- Legal documents present unique challenges including nested sections, complex syntax, and lengthy footnotes.
- Standard AI models struggle when legal answers span multiple pages and require extensive contextual synthesis.
- The research aims to improve the authority and precision of automated responses in the professional legal domain.
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🏷️ Themes
Artificial Intelligence, Legal Technology, Natural Language Processing
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📄 Original Source Content
arXiv:2602.07190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legal documents have complex document layouts involving multiple nested sections, lengthy footnotes and further use specialized linguistic devices like intricate syntax and domain-specific vocabulary to ensure precision and authority. These inherent characteristics of legal documents make question answering challenging, and particularly so when the answer to the question spans several pages (i.e. requires long-context) and is required to be comp