Can Small Language Models Handle Vietnamese Legal Reasoning? Insights from Multi-Task Evaluation

Long S. T. Nguyen; Hung C. Luu; Quynh T. N. Vo; Hy N. G. La; Hoai M. Tran; Anh T. D. Dinh; Tuan H. Nguyen; Tri N. Ho; Tho T. Quan

Can Small Language Models Handle Vietnamese Legal Reasoning? Insights from Multi-Task Evaluation

Long S. T. Nguyen, Hung C. Luu, Quynh T. N. Vo, Hy N. G. La, Hoai M. Tran, Anh T. D. Dinh, Tuan H. Nguyen, Tri N. Ho, Tho T. Quan

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%A Tran, Hoai M.
%A Dinh, Anh T. D.
%A Nguyen, Tuan H.
%A Ho, Tri N.
%A Quan, Tho T.
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[Can Small Language Models Handle Vietnamese Legal Reasoning? Insights from Multi-Task Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.vlsp-1.23/) (Nguyen et al., VLSP 2025)

Can Small Language Models Handle Vietnamese Legal Reasoning? Insights from Multi-Task Evaluation (Nguyen et al., VLSP 2025)

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Long S. T. Nguyen, Hung C. Luu, Quynh T. N. Vo, Hy N. G. La, Hoai M. Tran, Anh T. D. Dinh, Tuan H. Nguyen, Tri N. Ho, and Tho T. Quan. 2025. Can Small Language Models Handle Vietnamese Legal Reasoning? Insights from Multi-Task Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing, pages 165–178, Hanoi, Vietnam. Association for Computational Linguistics.