Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026

Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 nllp-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.0/ thylinao at ChildSafeAds 2026: A Six-Member Ensemble and What Each Level of Data Access Provided Maksim Silchenko author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 silchenko-2026-thylinao-childsafeads https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.1/ 2026-10 1 11 Can LLMs Time Travel? Enhancing Temporal Consistency in Legal Agentic Search through Reinforcement Learning Wei Fan author Z H O U Yining author Mufan Zhang author W E N G Yanbing author Yiran HU author Tianshi Zheng author Baixuan Xu author Chunyang Li author Jianhui Yang author Haoran Li author Yangqiu Song author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 fan-etal-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.2/ 2026-10 12 12 GRACE: Grounded Adversarial Reasoning over Canadian Law Jiakang Xu author Wantong Huo author Udom Silparcha author Jonathan H Chan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 xu-etal-2026-grace https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.3/ 2026-10 13 13 OblEx26: A Multi-Jurisdictional Benchmark for Structured Obligation Extraction from Anti-Money Laundering Regulations Philip Moore author Giovanni Bandi author Tim Luka Horstmann author Russell Moore author Robert H Wardrop author Paula Buttery author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 moore-etal-2026-oblex26 https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.4/ 2026-10 14 28 LegalPincite: Multi-level Legal Information Retrieval Dataset Theresia Veronika Rampisela author Henrik Palmer Olsen author Giovanni Colavizza author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 rampisela-etal-2026-legalpincite https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.5/ 2026-10 29 41 Persuading the Judge: Adversarial Robustness and RAG Mitigation in LLM-Based Legal Citation Verification Rohann Rahul Shah author Rishabh Kartik Jawagal author Gowri Srinivasa author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 shah-etal-2026-persuading https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.6/ 2026-10 42 54 Evidence-Grounded Contract Clause Classification with Small Language Models Dina Mohamed Ali author Hager Hamed Abd Elrady Allam author Hayam Abdelbaset Rezk author Rahatara Ferdousi author Mohammed Anber AbdElhamed author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 ali-etal-2026-evidence https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.7/ 2026-10 55 63 Alphastream at ChildSafeAds 2026: Gated Per-Label Merging and an Advertiser-Precedent Rule for Rare Compliance Classes Raghavendra Prasad Narayan author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 narayan-2026-alphastream https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.8/ 2026-10 64 75 Structuring license permissiveness from pairwise comparisons Hamidah Oderinwale author Rachel Hong author David Atkinson author Art Abal author Benjamin Laufer author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 oderinwale-etal-2026-structuring https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.9/ 2026-10 76 93 Privacy Later: Reflections on Design Decisions, Lessons Learned, and Open Problems of the OPP-115 Corpus a Decade After Release Shomir Wilson author Florian Schaub author Norman Sadeh author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 wilson-etal-2026-privacy https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.10/ 2026-10 94 100 The EUR-Lex Retrieval Dataset: A Section-Aware and Human-Annotated Dataset for Long-Form Similar Case Retrieval Christof Koolen author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 koolen-2026-eur https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.11/ 2026-10 101 118 Verdict Without the Rule: Diagnosing and Auditing Regulatory Rule Sensitivity in LLM Compliance Systems Saisab Sadhu author Aadit Sengupta author Vinay kumar Sankarapu author Pratinav Seth author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 sadhu-etal-2026-verdict https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.12/ 2026-10 119 132 What the Public Asked to Change, and What It Would Touch? Complaint-to-Statute Grounding for Thailand’s Regulatory Reform Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong author Wuttikrai Lertprasertphakorn author Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot author Sarana Nutanong author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 akarajaradwong-etal-2026-public https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.13/ 2026-10 133 141 ARGUS: Role-Aware Event Knowledge Graphs for U.S. Employment-Discrimination Complaints Sriram Kannan author Swetha Saseendran author Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Kandi author Leslie Barrett author Madhavan Seshadri author Enrico Santus author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 kannan-etal-2026-argus https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.14/ 2026-10 142 155 Where Experts Disagree, Models Fail: Detecting Implicit Legal Citations in French Court Decisions Avrile Floro author Tamara Dhorasoo author Soline Pellez author Nils Holzenberger author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 floro-etal-2026-experts https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.15/ 2026-10 156 175 Tensions Between Copyright, Contract, Accessibility and Technology in Australia: A Case Study on Legal Information Access Hunter Briegel author Sumedh Vemuganti author J Shane Culpepper author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 briegel-etal-2026-tensions https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.16/ 2026-10 176 182 A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion Palvika Bansal author Rittika Jindal author Ruichong Wang author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 bansal-etal-2026-strong https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.17/ 2026-10 183 198 A Dataset of Motion-Response Text Pairs from US District Court Cases for Legal Judgment Prediction Damian Curran author Eduard Hovy author Lea Frermann author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 curran-etal-2026-dataset https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.18/ 2026-10 199 211 An Empirical Study of Evidence Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Generation over the Thai Royal Gazette Pantai Suyasri author Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong author Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 suyasri-etal-2026-empirical https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.19/ 2026-10 212 236 Terms and Conditions Apply: Evaluating Consumer LLM Reliability in NDA Interpretation to Investigate the Non-Linear Role of Reasoning Simeon Sayer author Shaurya Jain Mathur author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 sayer-mathur-2026-terms https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.20/ 2026-10 237 256 Cross-Lingual Legal QA for Vietnamese Labour Law: Retrieval, Translation, and Verifier-Guided Correction Nguyen Minh Chi author Mo El-Haj author Nguyen Ha Thanh author Dawn Knight author Paul Rayson author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 chi-etal-2026-cross https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.21/ 2026-10 257 257 Recall Is Not Completeness: Retrieving All the Evidence a Question Needs Sebastien Kawada author Adhiban Arulselvan author Manolis Kellis author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 kawada-etal-2026-recall https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.22/ 2026-10 258 258 AI-Monitors at ChildSafeAds 2026: A Routed Hybrid for Commercial Content in Child-Facing YouTube Videos Pragyananda sahoo author Vishnu Tripathi author Prakhar joshi author Gaurav Kumar author Neel Mani author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 sahoo-etal-2026-ai https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.23/ 2026-10 259 270 Do Small Models Use the Law You Give Them? Measuring Context Use on a Bilingual Bangladesh Legal Benchmark Moniruzzaman Mahadi author Abrar Mohammed Tanzim Alam author Mir Mohammad Asif Abdullah author Sayma Siddika Monalisa author Swakkhar Shatabda author Md Adnan Arefeen author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 mahadi-etal-2026-small https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.24/ 2026-10 271 289 Beyond the Single-Expert Ceiling: Localizing LLM-as-Judge Stability on Free-Form Legal Essays Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong author Wuttikrai Lertprasertphakorn author Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot author Sarana Nutanong author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 akarajaradwong-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.25/ 2026-10 290 302 What Drives an LLM’s Legal Reasoning? Measuring Faithfulness at the Concept Level Yassine Thlija author Lena Held author Ivan Habernal author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 thlija-etal-2026-drives https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.26/ 2026-10 303 320 CLARE: A Criminal-Law DSL for Neuro-Symbolic Long-Form Legal Reasoning Jaehoon Jeong author Jay-Yoon Lee author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 jeong-lee-2026-clare https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.27/ 2026-10 321 321 CANLEGALRAGBENCH: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Canadian Case Law Ethan Zhao author Maksym Taranukhin author Wei Cui author Moira Aikenhead author Vered Shwartz author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 zhao-etal-2026-canlegalragbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.28/ 2026-10 322 322 Nürnberg NLP at ChildSafeAds 2026: Structurally Dissimilar Voter Ensembles under Four Levels of Data Access Philipp Steigerwald author Eric Rudolph author Jens Albrecht author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 steigerwald-etal-2026-nurnberg-nlp https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.29/ 2026-10 323 333 LegalBench.PT: A Benchmark for Portuguese Law Beatriz Canaverde author Telmo Pires author Andre Martins author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 canaverde-etal-2026-legalbench https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.30/ 2026-10 334 349 Retrieval for Legal AI: Complementarity and Cross-Collection Interference in Brazilian Legal Collections Flavio Soriano author Guilherme Henrique Gomes Evangelista author Celso França author Gisele L Pappa author Wagner Meira Jr. author Marcos André Gonçalves author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 soriano-etal-2026-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.31/ 2026-10 350 360 GreekBarRetrieval: A Benchmark for Greek Statutory Retrieval Ernest Beta author Odysseas S Chlapanis author Dimitris Galanis author Ion Androutsopoulos author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 beta-etal-2026-greekbarretrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.32/ 2026-10 361 380 Imitation Thresholds: Quantifying Influence Propagation in Large Language Models Gil Semo author Dor Bernsohn author Lior Magen author Kfir Bar author Gila Hayat author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 semo-etal-2026-imitation https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.33/ 2026-10 381 381 Discovering Hierarchical Semantic Structures in EU Regulatory Embeddings: A Comparison of Two K-means Solutions and Their Alignment with EuroVoc Kayoko Fukasawa author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 fukasawa-2026-discovering https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.34/ 2026-10 382 398 Deka Retrieval: Component-Level Criteria for Mining Legal Case Pairs in Thai Supreme Court Decisions Pasin Buakhaw author Pawitsapak Akarajaradwong author Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 buakhaw-etal-2026-deka https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.35/ 2026-10 399 419 FIRAC-APPEALS: A 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Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 lee-chae-2026-outside https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.37/ 2026-10 432 455 GapToCompliance: A Taxonomy-Driven Agentic AI Framework for Automated AI Act Gap Analysis and Remediation Ilias Driouich author Hongliu Cao author Eoin Thomas author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 driouich-etal-2026-gaptocompliance https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.38/ 2026-10 456 467 The Bluebook as Code: A Deterministic Engine for Legal Citation Eric H Martínez author Matthew Dahl author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 martinez-dahl-2026-bluebook https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.39/ 2026-10 468 468 OPENER: A Frugal Open-World NER Pipeline for the Legal Domain Thibault GAREL author Faiza BELBACHIR author Assia Soukane author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 garel-etal-2026-opener https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.40/ 2026-10 469 483 Building Structured Sentencing Data from Federal Criminal Docket Entries: An Ontology and Entity Extraction Study David Guecha author Aanan Biswas author Charlotte S 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https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.42/ 2026-10 508 523 NELSR: A Nepali Legal Benchmark for Case-to-Statute Retrieval Anjan Parajuli author Darshan Kunwar author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-494-1 parajuli-kunwar-2026-nelsr https://aclanthology.org/2026.nllp-1.43/ 2026-10 524 534 Evaluating LLMs on Explicit Knowledge of Italian Legal Concepts Mattia Proietti author Lucia Passaro author Alessandro Lenci author 2026-10 text Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026 Nikolaos Aletras editor Ilias Chalkidis editor Leslie Barrett editor Cătălina Goanță editor Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro editor Gerasimos Spanakis editor Shanshan Xu editor Association for 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