Papers by Daniel Braun
AGB-DE: A Corpus for the Automated Legal Assessment of Clauses in German Consumer Contracts (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Annotated contracts are laborious task performed by companies, law firms, NGOs and the scientific community. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of 3,764 clauses from German consumer contracts annotated by legal experts with a clause in the contract. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms openly available models in detecting potentially void clauses. |
Acquiescence Bias in Large Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Acquiescence bias is a tendency of humans to agree with statements in surveys, independent of their actual beliefs. |
| Approach: | They investigate the presence of acquiescence bias in Large Language Models across different models, tasks, and languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that LLMs display a bias towards answering no regardless of whether it indicates agreement or disagreement. |
MucLex: A German Lexicon for Surface Realisation (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | lexica for rule-based surface realisers for languages other than English are often scarce. |
| Approach: | They propose a German lexicon for the Natural Language Generation task of surface realisation based on the crowd-sourced online lexicont Wiktionary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed lexicon contains more than 100,000 lemmata and 670,000 different word forms. |