Papers by Ronja Stern
From Citations to Criticality: Predicting Legal Decision Influence in the Multilingual Swiss Jurisprudence (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to evaluating the importance of legal cases are manual and resource-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset that uses two-tier labels to evaluate case criticality . they use the LD-Label to identify cases published as Leading Decisions and the Citation-L Label to rank cases by their citation frequency and recency. |
| Outcome: | The Criticality Prediction dataset outperforms existing approaches to evaluate case criticality . the proposed model outperformed the existing models in a zero-shot setting . |