FourCorners: Grounded Thai Legal Research over a Temporal Knowledge Graph (2026.acl-demo)
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Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong, Thitiwat Nopparatbundit, Treephop Saeteng, Kasidit Phoncharoen, Sarana Nutanong, Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot
| Challenge: | a new platform addresses five pain points in legal research in Thailand . the tools available to legal practitioners are fragmented and lack a unified tool for cross-referencing, version tracking or structural navigation. |
| Approach: | They propose a platform that addresses five practitioner pain points through three modules built on a temporal legal knowledge graph covering 552K nodes and 6.3M edges. |
| Outcome: | The proposed platform addresses five practitioner pain points through three modules built on a temporal legal knowledge graph covering 552K nodes and 6.3M edges. |
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