LLMs to the Rescue: Explaining DSA Statements of Reason with Platform’s Terms of Services

Marco Aspromonte, Andrea Ferraris, Federico Galli, Giuseppe Contissa


Abstract
The Digital Services Act (DSA) requires online platforms in the EU to provide “statements of reason” (SoRs) when restricting user content, but their effectiveness in ensuring transparency is still debated due to vague and complex terms of service (ToS). This paper explores the use of NLP techniques, specifically multi-agent systems based on large language models (LLMs), to clarify SoRs by linking them to relevant ToS sections. Analysing SoRs from platforms like Booking.com, Reddit, and LinkedIn, our findings show that LLMs can enhance the interpretability of content moderation decisions, improving user understanding and engagement with DSA requirements.
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2024.nllp-1.17
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Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024
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November
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2024
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Miami, FL, USA
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Nikolaos Aletras, Ilias Chalkidis, Leslie Barrett, Cătălina Goanță, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Gerasimos Spanakis
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NLLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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205–215
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Marco Aspromonte, Andrea Ferraris, Federico Galli, and Giuseppe Contissa. 2024. LLMs to the Rescue: Explaining DSA Statements of Reason with Platform’s Terms of Services. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2024, pages 205–215, Miami, FL, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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