Papers by Anisio Lacerda
Unsupervised Grouping of Public Procurement Similar Items: Which Text Representation Should I Use? (2024.lrec-main)
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Pedro P. V. Brum, Mariana O. Silva, Gabriel P. Oliveira, Lucas G. L. Costa, Anisio Lacerda, Gisele Pappa
| Challenge: | establishing reference prices is essential to guide competitors in setting product prices . however, selecting an appropriate representation for text is challenging . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for text cleaning, extraction, and representation based on sentence representations for public procurement item descriptions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach captures the most important components of item descriptions. |
Monotonic Scaffolding as a Diagnostic Lens for Legal Reasoning in LLMs (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Modern evaluation of Legal QA systems is shifting from terminal accuracy toward process-aware analyses of model reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a diagnostic framework grounded in monotonic scaffolding where language models receive gold-standard, case-relevant information across stages aligned with the canonical legal framework FIRAC. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates 3,123 Brazilian Bar Exam questions . it shows that terminal accuracy overestimates legal reasoning competence . |