LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases
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| author | Cai, Yida Hu, Ranjuexiao Xie, Huiyuan Li, Chenyang Liu, Yun Ye, Yuxiao Liu, Zhenghao Shen, Weixing Liu, Zhiyuan |
| author_facet | Cai, Yida Hu, Ranjuexiao Xie, Huiyuan Li, Chenyang Liu, Yun Ye, Yuxiao Liu, Zhenghao Shen, Weixing Liu, Zhiyuan |
| contents | Legal relations serve as an important analytical framework for dispute resolution in civil cases. However, legal relations in Chinese civil cases remain underexplored in the field of legal AI, largely due to the absence of comprehensive schemas. In this work, we first introduce a comprehensive schema for legal relations in civil cases, which contains a hierarchical taxonomy and definitions of arguments. Based on this schema, we formulate a legal relation extraction task and present LexRel, an expert-annotated benchmark for legal relation extraction in the Chinese civil law domain. We use LexRel to evaluate state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on legal relation extraction, showing that current LLMs exhibit significant limitations in accurately identifying civil legal relations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that explicitly incorporating information about legal relations leads to promising performance gains on other downstream legal AI tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases Cai, Yida Hu, Ranjuexiao Xie, Huiyuan Li, Chenyang Liu, Yun Ye, Yuxiao Liu, Zhenghao Shen, Weixing Liu, Zhiyuan Computation and Language Legal relations serve as an important analytical framework for dispute resolution in civil cases. However, legal relations in Chinese civil cases remain underexplored in the field of legal AI, largely due to the absence of comprehensive schemas. In this work, we first introduce a comprehensive schema for legal relations in civil cases, which contains a hierarchical taxonomy and definitions of arguments. Based on this schema, we formulate a legal relation extraction task and present LexRel, an expert-annotated benchmark for legal relation extraction in the Chinese civil law domain. We use LexRel to evaluate state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on legal relation extraction, showing that current LLMs exhibit significant limitations in accurately identifying civil legal relations. Furthermore, we demonstrate that explicitly incorporating information about legal relations leads to promising performance gains on other downstream legal AI tasks. |
| title | LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12643 |