GRACE: Grounded Adversarial Reasoning over Canadian Law
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arXiv:2609.23726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models have shown strong performance across a range of legal tasks, but existing benchmarks rarely evaluate the ability to take and defend a legal position, reason under incomplete information, or synthesize multiple statutory provisions. This gap is particularly pronounced for Canadian law, which remains underrepresented in legal NLP. We introduce GRACE (Grounded Reasoning Adversarial Canadian LEgal examples), a dataset of 1,915 question-reasoning-answer instances grounded in Canadian federal legislation. GRACE covers three reas
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.23726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models have shown strong performance across a range of legal tasks, but existing benchmarks rarely evaluate the ability to take and defend a legal position, reason under incomplete information, or synthesize multiple statutory provisions.
- This gap is particularly pronounced for Canadian law, which remains underrepresented in legal NLP.
- We introduce GRACE (Grounded Reasoning Adversarial Canadian LEgal examples), a dataset of 1,915 question-reasoning-answer instances grounded in Canadian federal legislation.
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