Legal Document Analysis

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The field studies how to turn complex legal texts into useful information, such as document labels, clauses, citations, arguments, obligations, and case outcomes. Common approaches include transformer and large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, legal knowledge graphs, and symbolic rules; OCR and multilingual resources help extend analysis to scanned and underrepresented legal materials. Applications include contract review, privacy-policy audits, precedent retrieval, regulatory compliance, and judgment analysis. Systems are increasingly evaluated on task-specific benchmarks, but reliable performance across jurisdictions and languages remains difficult, and evidence traceability, expert disagreement, and human oversight remain important.

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  1. REGREACT: Self-Correcting Multi-Agent Pipelines for Structured Regulatory Information Extraction

    Apr 13, 2026Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam JatowtLLM Self-CorrectionDocument Information Extraction

    University of Innsbruck, Austria

  2. A Benchmark for Gap and Overlap Analysis as a Test of KG Task Readiness

    Apr 12, 2026Maruf Ahmed Mridul, Rohit Kapa, Oshani SeneviratneKnowledge GraphsLegal Document Analysis

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States · Prudential Financial, Inc.

  3. De Jure: Iterative LLM Self-Refinement for Structured Extraction of Regulatory Rules

    Apr 2, 2026Keerat Guliani, Deepkamal Gill, David Landsman +3Document Information ExtractionLegal Document Analysis

    The Vanguard Group, Inc.

  4. DAOnt: A Formal Ontology for EU Data Act Compliance

    Mar 27, 2026Sheyla Leyva-Sánchez, Fabian Linde, Meem Arafat Manab +2Knowledge RepresentationLegal Document Analysis

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  5. Hybrid Multi-Phase Page Matching and Multi-Layer Diff Detection for Japanese Building Permit Document Review

    Mar 27, 2026Mitsumasa WadaLegal Document Analysis

    Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University

  6. Can Small Models Reason About Legal Documents? A Comparative Study

    Mar 26, 2026Snehit VaddiSmall Language ModelsLegal Reasoning

    Independent Researcher

  7. Where Experts Disagree, Models Fail: Detecting Implicit Legal Citations in French Court Decisions

    Mar 24, 2026Avrile Floro, Tamara Dhorasoo, Soline Pellez +1Annotator DisagreementLegal Citation Verification

    UPHF · Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris · Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

  8. Bridging National and International Legal Data: Two Projects Based on the Japanese Legal Standard XML Schema for Comparative Law Studies

    Mar 16, 2026Makoto NakamuraLegal Document AnalysisLegal IR

    * Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan.

  9. LLM-Assisted Causal Structure Disambiguation and Factor Extraction for Legal Judgment Prediction

    Mar 12, 2026Yuzhi Liang, Lixiang Ma, Xinrong ZhuLegal Judgment PredictionLegal Document Analysis

    School of Information Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

  10. PrivPRISM: Automatically Detecting Discrepancies Between Google Play Data Safety Declarations and Developer Privacy Policies

    Mar 10, 2026Bhanuka Silva, Dishanika Denipitiyage, Anirban Mahanti +2Privacy AuditingLegal Document Analysis

    University of Sydney · University of New South Wales

  11. LAMUS: A Large-Scale Corpus for Legal Argument Mining from U.S. Caselaw using LLMs

    Mar 9, 2026Serene Wang, Lavanya Pobbathi, Haihua ChenLegal NLPArgument Mining

    University of North Texas Denton, Texas, USA

  12. Guidelines for the Annotation and Visualization of Legal Argumentation Structures in Chinese Judicial Decisions

    Mar 5, 2026Kun Chen, Xianglei Liao, Kaixue Fei +2Legal Document AnalysisComputational Argumentation

    Law School, Nanjing University.

  13. SinhaLegal: A Benchmark Corpus for Information Extraction and Analysis in Sinhala Legislative Texts

    Mar 5, 2026Minduli Lasandi, Nevidu JayatillekeLegal NLPLegal Document Analysis

    School of Computing, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  14. Overcoming Language Barriers: Multilingual Analysis of the 2023 Swiss Privacy Law's Impact

    Oct 7, 2025Luka Nenadic, David Rodriguez, Joseph A. CalandrinoLegal Document Analysis

    ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland · Information Processing and Telecommunications Center Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ETSI Telecomunicación, Spain · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

  15. Hybrid Topic-Semantic Labeling and Graph Embeddings for Unsupervised Legal Document Clustering

    Aug 31, 2025Deepak Bastola, Woohyeok ChoiText ClusteringLegal Document Analysis

    Department of Mathematical Sciences, Salisbury University · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton College

  16. A Short Survey of Viewing Large Language Models in Legal Aspect

    Mar 16, 2023Zhongxiang SunLegal Judgment PredictionLegal Document Analysis

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China