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title = "{L}egal{V}iz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation",
author = "Onami, Eri and
Miyanishi, Taiki and
Maeda, Koki and
Kurita, Shuhei",
editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis and
Ritter, Alan and
Wang, Lu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = apr,
year = "2025",
address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
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abstract = "Legal documents including judgments and court orders require highly sophisticated legal knowledge for understanding. To disclose expert knowledge for non-experts, we explore the problem of visualizing legal texts with easy-to-understand diagrams and propose a novel dataset of LegalViz with 23 languages and 7,010 cases of legal document and visualization pairs, using the DOT graph description language of Graphviz. LegalViz provides a simple diagram from a complicated legal corpus identifying legal entities, transactions, legal sources, and statements at a glance, that are essential in each judgment. In addition, we provide new evaluation metrics for the legal diagram visualization by considering graph structures, textual similarities, and legal contents. We conducted empirical studies on few-shot and finetuning large language models for generating legal diagrams and evaluated them with these metrics, including legal content-based evaluation within 23 languages. Models trained with LegalViz outperform existing models including GPTs, confirming the effectiveness of our dataset."
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%T LegalViz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation
%A Onami, Eri
%A Miyanishi, Taiki
%A Maeda, Koki
%A Kurita, Shuhei
%Y Chiruzzo, Luis
%Y Ritter, Alan
%Y Wang, Lu
%S Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2025
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico
%@ 979-8-89176-189-6
%F onami-etal-2025-legalviz
%X Legal documents including judgments and court orders require highly sophisticated legal knowledge for understanding. To disclose expert knowledge for non-experts, we explore the problem of visualizing legal texts with easy-to-understand diagrams and propose a novel dataset of LegalViz with 23 languages and 7,010 cases of legal document and visualization pairs, using the DOT graph description language of Graphviz. LegalViz provides a simple diagram from a complicated legal corpus identifying legal entities, transactions, legal sources, and statements at a glance, that are essential in each judgment. In addition, we provide new evaluation metrics for the legal diagram visualization by considering graph structures, textual similarities, and legal contents. We conducted empirical studies on few-shot and finetuning large language models for generating legal diagrams and evaluated them with these metrics, including legal content-based evaluation within 23 languages. Models trained with LegalViz outperform existing models including GPTs, confirming the effectiveness of our dataset.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.339
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.339/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.339
%P 6657-6676
Markdown (Informal)
[LegalViz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.339/) (Onami et al., NAACL 2025)
ACL
- Eri Onami, Taiki Miyanishi, Koki Maeda, and Shuhei Kurita. 2025. LegalViz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6657–6676, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.