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LexIssue: Benchmarking Legal Issue Identification in Chinese Civil Litigation
arXiv:2609.02954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the issues disputed between litigating parties is a crucial component of real-world litigation. However, legal issues remain comparatively u
arXiv:2609.02954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the issues disputed between litigating parties is a crucial component of real-world litigation. However, legal issues remain comparatively underexplored in legal AI research. In this work, we study the computational modelling of legal issue identification in litigation. We introduce a legally grounded hierarchical schema that represents legal issues through both free-form issue descriptions and structured legal categories, and formulate legal issue identification as two complementary tasks: legal issue generation and legal issue classification. Based on this formulation, we construct LexIssue, a benchmark containing 430 real-world Chinese civil litigation cases and 1,303 expert-annotated disputed legal issues. We further develop an issue-centric legal knowledge base spanning 27 causes of action and 441 candidate legal issue entries to support retrieval-augmented reasoning. Experimental results across a diverse set of models show that retrieval-augmented generation using the constructed legal issue knowledge base consistently improves performance in identifying disputed legal issues and their corresponding legal attributes.
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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-09-04