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Oana Ichim

6 accepted papers

2025

AQuAECHR: Attributed Question Answering for European Court of Human Rights

ACL 2025finding

LLMs have become prevalent tools for information seeking across various fields, including law. However, their generated responses often suffer from hallucinations, hindering their widespread adoption in high stakes domains such as law, which can potentially mislead experts and propagate societal har…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CoCoLex: Confidence-guided Copy-based Decoding for Grounded Legal Text Generation

ACL 2025long

Due to their ability to process long and complex contexts, LLMs can offer key benefits to the Legal domain, but their adoption has been hindered by their tendency to generate unfaithful, ungrounded, or hallucinatory outputs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation offers a promising solution by groundi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Through the Lens of Split Vote: Exploring Disagreement, Difficulty and Calibration in Legal Case Outcome Classification

ACL 2024long

In legal decisions, split votes (SV) occur when judges cannot reach a unanimous decision, posing a difficulty for lawyers who must navigate diverse legal arguments and opinions. In high-stakes domains, %as human-AI interaction systems become increasingly important, understanding the alignment of per…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2023

From Dissonance to Insights: Dissecting Disagreements in Rationale Construction for Case Outcome Classification

EMNLP 2023long main

In legal NLP, Case Outcome Classification (COC) must not only be accurate but also trustworthy and explainable. Existing work in explainable COC has been limited to annotations by a single expert. However, it is well-known that lawyers may disagree in their assessment of case facts. We hence collect…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

VECHR: A Dataset for Explainable and Robust Classification of Vulnerability Type in the European Court of Human Rights

EMNLP 2023short main

Recognizing vulnerability is crucial for understanding and implementing targeted support to empower individuals in need. This is especially important at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), where the court adapts Convention standards to meet actual individual needs and thus to ensure effectiv…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2022

Deconfounding Legal Judgment Prediction for European Court of Human Rights Cases Towards Better Alignment with Experts

EMNLP 2022main

This work demonstrates that Legal Judgement Prediction systems without expert-informed adjustments can be vulnerable to shallow, distracting surface signals that arise from corpus construction, case distribution, and confounding factors. To mitigate this, we use domain expertise to strategically ide…