All times are in SGT time zone
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1 |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Workshop opening |
| 09:10 - 09:15 | Anthropomorphization of AI: Opportunities and Risks Ameet Deshpande, Tanmay Rajpurohit, Karthik Narasimhan and Ashwin Kalyan |
| 09:15 - 09:20 | Legal NLP Meets MiCAR: Advancing the Analysis of Crypto White Papers Carolina Camassa |
| 09:20 - 09:25 | On the Potential and Limitations of Few-Shot In-Context Learning to Generate Metamorphic Specifications for Tax Preparation Software Dananjay Srinivas, Rohan Das, Saeid Tizpaz-Niari, Ashutosh Trivedi and Maria Leonor Pacheco |
| 09:25 - 09:35 | Joint Q&A |
| 09:35 - 09:40 | NOMOS: Navigating Obligation Mining in Official Statutes Andrea Pennisi, Elvira González Hernández and Nina Koivula |
| 09:40 - 09:45 | Long Text Classification using Transformers with Para Selection strategies Mohit Tuteja and Daniel González Juclà |
| 09:45 - 09:50 | Italian Legislative Text Classification for Gazzetta Ufficiale Marco Rovera, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Francesco Greco, Mariano Lucchese, Sara Tonelli and Antonio Antetomaso |
| 09:50 - 09:55 | Towards Mitigating Perceived Unfairness in Contracts from a Non-Legal Stakeholder's Perspective Anmol Singhal, Preethu Rose Anish, Shirish Karande and Smita Ghaisas |
| 09:55 - 10:00 | Low-Resource Deontic Modality Classification in EU Legislation Kristina Minkova, Shashank Chakravarthy and Gijs van Dijck |
| 10:00 - 10:05 | Transferring Legal Natural Language Inference Model from a US State to Another: What Makes It So Hard? Alice Kwak, Gaetano Vincent Forte, Derek E. Bambauer and Mihai Surdeanu |
| 10:05 - 10:10 | Legally Enforceable Hate Speech Detection Chu Fei Luo, Rohan Bhambhoria, Samuel Dahan, Xiaodan Zhu |
| 10:10 - 10:15 | More than Votes? Voting and Language based Partisanship in the US Supreme Court Biaoyan Fang, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Lea Frermann |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Joint Q&A |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 |
| 11:00 - 11:05 |
Retrieval-Augmented Chain-of-Thought in Semi-structured Domains Vaibhav Mavi, Abulhair Saparov and Chen Zhao |
| 11:05 - 11:10 | Mixed-domain Language Modeling for Processing Long Legal Documents Wenyue Hua, Yuchen Zhang, Zhe Chen, Josie Li and Melanie Weber |
| 11:10 - 11:15 |
Large Language Models are legal but they are not: Underscoring the need for better Legal LLMs
Thanmay Jayakumar, Fauzan Farooqui and Luqman Farooqui |
| 11:15 - 11:20 |
Exploration of Open Large Language Models for eDiscovery
Sumit Pai, Sounak Lahiri, Ujjwal Kumar, Krishanu Das Baksi, Elijah Soba, Michael Suesserman, Nirmala Pudota, Jon Foster, Edward Bowen and Sanmitra Bhattacharya |
| 11:20 - 11:25 |
A Comparative Study of Prompting Strategies for Legal Text Classification
Ali Hakimi Parizi, Yuyang Liu, Prudhvi Nokku, Sina Gholamian and David Emerson |
| 11:25 - 11:30 |
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Large Language Models on Legal Judgment Prediction
Ruihao Shui, Yixin Cao, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Joint Q&A |
| 11:40 - 11:45 |
SCALE: Scaling up the Complexity for Advanced Language Model Evaluation
Vishvaksenan Rasiah, Ronja Stern, Veton Matoshi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, Daniel Ho and Joel Niklaus |
| 11:45 - 11:50 |
Super-SCOTUS: A multi-sourced dataset for the Supreme Court of the US
Biaoyan Fang, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Lea Frermann |
| 11:50 - 11:55 |
MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus
Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis and Daniel Ho |
| 11:55 - 12:00 |
ECtHR-PCR: A Dataset for Precedent Understanding and Prior Case Retrieval in the European Court of Human Rights
Santosh T.Y.S.S, Rashid Haddad and Matthias Grabmair |
| 12:00 - 12:05 |
AsyLex: A Dataset for Legal Language Processing of Refugee Claims
Claire Barale, Mark Klaisoongnoen, Pasquale Minervini, Michael Rovatsos and Nehal Bhuta |
| 12:05 - 12:10 |
LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain
Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Pooja Rani, Andrea Galassi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Joint Q&A |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & In-Person Poster Session (Lunch provided) |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote Talk Jerrold Soh - NLP in the Legal World |
| 15:00 - 15:05 |
Retrieval-based Evaluation for LLMs: A Case Study in Korean Legal QA Cheol Ryu, Seolhwa Lee, Subeen Pang, Chanyeol Choi, Hojun Choi, Myeonggee Min and Jy-yong Sohn |
| 15:05 - 15:10 |
Joint Learning for Legal Text Retrieval and Textual Entailment: Leveraging the Relationship between Relevancy and Affirmation Nguyen Hai Long, Thi Hai Yen Vuong, Ha Thanh Nguyen and Xuan-Hieu Phan |
| 15:10 - 15:15 |
Tracing Influence at Scale: A Contrastive Learning Approach to Linking Public Comments and Regulator Responses Linzi Xing, Brad Hackinen and Giuseppe Carenini |
| 15:15 - 15:20 |
The Law and NLP: Bridging Disciplinary Disconnects Robert Mahari, Dominik Stammbach, Elliott Ash, Alex Pentland |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | Joint Q&A |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4 |
| 16:00 - 16:05 |
Towards Explainability and Fairness in Swiss Judgement Prediction: Benchmarking on a Multilingual Dataset Santosh T.Y.S.S, Nina Baumgartner, Matthias Stürmer, Matthias Grabmair and Joel Niklaus |
| 16:05 - 16:10 |
LLMs -- the Good, the Bad or the Indispensable?: A Use Case on Legal Statute Prediction and Legal Judgment Prediction on Indian Court Cases Shaurya Vats, Atharva Zope, Somsubhra De, Anurag Sharma, Upal Bhattacharya, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Shouvik Kumar Guha, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh |
| 16:10 - 16:15 |
Exploiting Contrastive Learning and Numerical Evidence for Confusing Legal Judgment Prediction Leilei Gan, Baokui Li, Kun Kuang, Yating Zhang, Lei Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu |
| 16:15 - 16:20 |
Multi-Defendant Legal Judgment Prediction via Hierarchical Reasoning Yougang Lyu, Jitai Hao, Zihan Wang, Kai Zhao, Shen Gao, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Fang Wang, Zhaochun Ren |
| 16:20 - 16:25 |
Pretrained Language Models v. Court Ruling Predictions: A Case Study on a Small Dataset of French Court of Appeal Rulings Olivia Vaudaux, Caroline Bazzoli, Maximin Coavoux, Géraldine Vial and Étienne Vergès |
| 16:25 - 16:30 |
Legal Judgment Prediction: If You Are Going to Do It, Do It Right Masha Medvedeva and Pauline McBride |
| 16:30 - 16:35 |
Extracting Sentencing-Related Factors from Criminal Cases in Hebrew Din Ezra, Maxim Bragilovski, Itay Razumenko, Keren Gorelik, Lior Kobi, Lior Rokach, Arnon Strum and Nir Grinberg |
| 16:35 - 16:40 | Joint Q&A |
| 16:40 - 16:45 |
Do Language Models Learn about Legal Entity Types during Pretraining? Claire Barale, Michael Rovatsos and Nehal Bhuta |
| 16:45 - 16:50 |
Questions about Contracts: Prompt Templates for Structured Answer Generation Adam Roegiest, Radha Chitta, Jonathan Donnelly, Maya Lash, Alexandra Vtyurina and Francois Longtin |
| 16:50 - 16:55 |
Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents Ramona Christen, Anastassia Shaitarova, Matthias Stürmer and Joel Niklaus |
| 16:55 - 17:00 |
Beyond The Text: Analysis of Privacy Statements through Syntactic and Semantic Role Labeling Yan Shvartzshanider, Ananth Balashankar, Thomas Wies and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian |
| 17:00 - 17:05 |
Connecting Symbolic Statutory Reasoning with Legal Information Extraction Nils Holzenberger and Benjamin Van Durme |
| 17:05 - 17:10 |
Automatic Anonymization of Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rulings Joel Niklaus, Robin Mamié, Matthias Stürmer, Daniel Brunner and Marcel Gygli |
| 17:10 - 17:15 |
Can ChatGPT Perform Reasoning Using the IRAC Method in Analyzing Legal Scenarios Like a Lawyer? Xiaoxi Kang, Lizhen Qu, Lay-Ki Soon, Adnan Trakic, Terry Yue Zhuo, Patrick Charles Emerton, Genevieve Grant |
| 17:15 - 17:20 |
Information Extraction from Legal Wills: How Well Does GPT-4 Do? Alice Saebom Kwak, Cheonkam Jeong, Gaetano Vincent Forte, Derek Bambauer, Clayton T Morrison, Mihai Surdeanu |
| 17:20 - 17:30 | Joint Q&A |
| 17:30 - 17:35 | Best Presentation Award |