From Statute to Control Flow: Span-Grounded Deontic Trees for Defeasible Scope Parsing
KDD 2026 Dataset & Benchmark Track, Poster · 2026-06-08
A span-grounded legal parsing framework for rules, exceptions, and scope relations.
Abstract
This work targets the silent omission problem in statutory parsing by decomposing regulations into span-grounded deontic trees. The representation keeps rules, exceptions, and scope relations explicit so that complex legal control flow can be traced and audited more reliably.
Authors
Jian Chen*Siyuan Li*Chucheng WanZixuan Yuan