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@inproceedings{chlapanis-etal-2024-lar,
    title = "{LAR}-{ECHR}: A New Legal Argument Reasoning Task and Dataset for Cases of the {E}uropean Court of Human Rights",
    author = "Chlapanis, Odysseas S.  and
      Galanis, Dimitrios  and
      Androutsopoulos, Ion",
    editor = "Aletras, Nikolaos  and
      Chalkidis, Ilias  and
      Barrett, Leslie  and
      Goanț{\u{a}}, C{\u{a}}t{\u{a}}lina  and
      Preoțiuc-Pietro, Daniel  and
      Spanakis, Gerasimos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, FL, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nllp-1.22/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.nllp-1.22",
    pages = "267--279",
    abstract = "We present Legal Argument Reasoning (LAR), a novel task designed to evaluate the legal reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The task requires selecting the correct next statement (from multiple choice options) in a chain of legal arguments from court proceedings, given the facts of the case. We constructed a dataset (LAR-ECHR) for this task using cases from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). We evaluated seven general-purpose LLMs on LAR-ECHR and found that (a) the ranking of the models is aligned with that of LegalBench, an established US-based legal reasoning benchmark, even though LAR-ECHR is based on EU law, (b) LAR-ECHR distinguishes top mode

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