Mina: A Multilingual LLM-Powered Legal Assistant Agent for Empowering Access to Justice in Bangladesh (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing AI legal assistants lack Bengali-language support and jurisdiction-specific adaptation, limiting their effectiveness. |
| Approach: | They developed a multilingual LLM-based legal assistant tailored for the Bangladeshi context that employs multilingual embeddings and a RAG-based chain-of-tools framework for retrieval, reasoning, translation, and document generation. |
| Outcome: | Evaluated by law faculty from leading Bangladeshi universities across all stages of the 2022 and 2023 Bangladesh Bar Council examinations, Mina achieved scores of 75–80% in preliminary MCQs, written, and simulated viva voce components. |
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