ASAIL 2025
Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 9 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume, 5 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Session 1: Evaluating & Specializing LLMs

• Measuring Faithfulness and Abstention: An Automated Pipeline for Evaluating LLM-Generated 3-ply Case-Based Legal Arguments (Long paper) 1-18
  Li Zhang, Morgan Gray, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley
• Semantic Specialization of Legal LLMs via Large-Scale Fine-Tuning on Jurisdictional MCQs (Long paper) 19-31
  Hsuan-Lei Shao
• Semantic Evaluation of Legal Essay Reasoning with Transfer-Learned LLMs: A Crowdsourced Elo Framework (Long paper) 32-46
  Ying-Chu Yu, Hsuan-Lei Shao

Session 2: Structure & Explainability in Legal AI

• Incorporating Legal Structure in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Case Study on Copyright Fair Use (Long paper) 47-59
  Justin Ho, Alexandra Colby, William Fisher
• Detecting Purpose Language in State Regulations (Short paper) 60-68
  Chandan Aggarwal, Royce Koh, Cindy Zhang, Matthew Carey, Sylvia Kwakye
• Explainable NLLP: Advancements in Explainable AI for Natural Legal Language Processing (Short paper) 69-82
  Lucas Resck, Felipe Moreno-Vera, Tobias Veiga, Gerardo Paucar, Ezequiel Fajreldines, Guilherme Klafke, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

Session 3: Neuro-Symbolic & Logical Approaches

• From Legal Texts to Defeasible Deontic Logic via LLMs: A Study in Automated Semantic Analysis (Long paper) 83-100
  Elias Horner, Cristinel Mateis, Guido Governatori, Agata Ciabattoni

Session 4: Information Extraction & Datasets

• What Are the Facts? Automated Extraction of Court-Established Facts from Criminal-Court Opinions (Short paper) 101-117
  Klára Bendová, Tomáš Knap, Jan Černý, Vojtěch Pour, Jaromir Savelka, Ivana Kvapilíková, Jakub Drápal