Publications

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• Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, Brandon Waldon, Daniel N Rockmore, Diego Zambrano, Dmitry Talisman, Enam Hoque, Faiz Surani, Frank Fagan, Galit Sarfaty, Gregory M Dickinson, Haggai Porat, Jason Hegland, Jessica Wu, Joe Nudell, Joel Niklaus, John Nay, Jonathan H Choi, Kevin Tobia, Margaret Hagan, Megan Ma, Michael Livermore, Nikon Rasumov-Rahe, Nils Holzenberger, Noam Kolt, Peter Henderson, Sean Rehaag, Sharad Goel, Shang Gao, Spencer Williams, Sunny Gandhi, Tom Zur, Varun Iyer, Zehua Li, “LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models” - ArXiv Preprint
• Alex Nyffenegger, Matthias Stürmer, Joel Niklaus, “Anonymity at Risk? Assessing Re-Identification Capabilities of Large Language Models” - ArXiv Pre-Print
• Vishvaksenan Rasiah, Ronja Stern, Veton Matoshi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, Daniel E. Ho, Joel Niklaus, “ SCALE: Scaling up the Complexity for Advanced Language Model Evaluation” – ArXiv Pre-Print
• Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, Daniel E. Ho, “MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus” – Data-centric Machine Learning Research Workshop (DMLR) @ International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023
• Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Pooja Rani, Andrea Galassi, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, “LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain” – ArXiv Pre-Print
• Tobias Brugger, Matthias Stürmer, Joel Niklaus, “MultiLegalSBD: A Multilingual Legal Sentence Boundary Detection Dataset” – International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL) 2023 Presentation
• Joel Niklaus, Daniele Giofré, “BudgetLongformer: Can we Cheaply Pretrain a SotA Legal Language Model From Scratch?” – Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing Workshop (ENLSP) @ Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022 & Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP) @ Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023 Video
• Gil Semo, Dor Bernsohn, Ben Hagag, Gila Hayat, Joel Niklaus, “ClassActionPrediction: A Challenging Benchmark for Legal Judgment Prediction of Class Action Cases in the US” – Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP) @ International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2022
• Joel Niklaus, Matthias Stürmer, Ilias Chalkidis, “An Empirical Study on Cross-X Transfer for Legal Judgment Prediction” – Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 2022 (Presentation , Video)
• Joel Niklaus, Ilias Chalkidis, Matthias Stürmer, “Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark” – Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP) @ International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2021 (Presentation , Video)
• Christine Krebs, Michael Falkner, Joel Niklaus, Luca Persello, Stefan Klöppel, Tobias Nef, Prabitha Urwyler, “ Application of Eye Tracking in Puzzle Games for Adjunct Cognitive Markers: Pilot Observational Study in Older Adults” – JMIR serious games 9
• Joel Niklaus, Michele Alberti, Rolf Ingold, Markus Stolze, Thomas Koller, “Challenging Human Supremacy: Evaluating Monte Carlo Tree Search and Deep Learning for the Trick Taking Card Game Jass” – Reinforcement Learning in Games (RLG) @ Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020 & International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2020
• Joel Niklaus, Michele Alberti, Vinay Pondenkandath, Rolf Ingold, Marcus Liwicki, “Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Card Games and Its Application to the Swiss Game Jass” – Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) 2019
• Zhongliang Zhao, Jose Carrera, Joel Niklaus, Torsten Braun, “Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Indoor Landmark Localization” – International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication (WWIC) 2018