LegalViz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Graphviz provides diagrams for legal documents that are easy to understand and understand . a novel dataset of 23 languages and 7,010 cases of legal document and visualization pairs is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of legal diagrams using DOT graph description language of Graphviz. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset outperforms existing models including GPTs in 23 languages and 7,010 cases of legal document and visualization pairs. |
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