Legal LLMs' Hallucinations Should Be Evaluated as Warrant Failures
This position paper argues that legal language models (LLMs) should be evaluated for failure based on the context-sensitive relation between a legal claim and authority, rather than just factual inaccuracy or citation issues. The authors define 'claim-authority warrant' as the context-specific link between a legal claim and its supporting authority within a jurisdiction. They propose evaluating…
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- Legal LLMs should be evaluated by their claim-authority warrant rather than accuracy or citation issues
- Claim-authority warrant is the context-sensitive relation between a legal claim and its supporting authority within a jurisdiction
- The paper proposes evaluating LLMs based on answering, correcting false premises, and abstaining appropriately according to this relation
Read the original at arXiv cs.CL · by Maksym Taranukhin, Vered Shwartz primary sourceOpen source ↗
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