When Can a Machine Trust a Statute? A Survival Certificate for Machine-Extracted Legal Logic
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Abstract
The paper discusses the reliability of machine-extracted legal logic from statutes, highlighting the challenges of inter-extractor disagreement.
Reality Card
The study establishes a passive survival certificate for machine-extracted statutory contexts, certifying implications based on a rigorous statistical framework.
The study analyzed 29,365 Missouri sections and 502 Indian central-Act sections, achieving a certification of implications with a one-sided Wilson 95% lower bound on survival reaching 0.95.
The certificate is usable but fragile, requiring per-chapter calibration or error tolerance, which raises concerns about its generalizability.
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