Claire Barale

Learning to Understand Entities in Legal Texts
Claire Barale
PhD thesis, 2026 | thesis – pre-viva talk slides

LexTime: A Benchmark for Temporal Ordering of Legal Events
Claire Barale, Leslie Barrett, Vikram Sunil Bajaj, Michael Rovatsos
EMNLP Findings 2025 | paper – slides – poster

Faithfulness and Content Selection in Long-Input Multi-Document Summarisation of U.S. Civil Rights Litigation
Isabel Sebire, Claire Barale, Mirella Lapata
ICAIL 2025 (ACM International Conference on AI and Law) | slides

Are We Done with MMLU?
Aryo Pradipta Gema, Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Giwon Hong, Alessio Devoto, Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino, Rohit Saxena, Xuanli He, Yu Zhao, Xiaotang Du, Mohammad Reza Ghasemi Madani, Claire Barale, Robert McHardy, Joshua Harris, Jean Kaddour, Emile van Krieken, Pasquale Minervini
NAACL 2025 | paper

Information Extraction for Planning Court Cases
Drish Mali, Rubash Mali, Claire Barale
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP) at EMNLP 2024 | paper

Do Language Models Learn about Legal Entity Types during Pretraining?
Claire Barale, Michael Rovatsos, Nehal Bhuta
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP) at EMNLP 2023 | paper – slides – poster

AsyLex: A Dataset for Legal Language Processing of Refugee Claims
Claire Barale, Mark Klaisoongnoen, Pasquale Minervini, Michael Rovatsos and Nehal Bhuta
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP) at EMNLP 2023 | paper – slides – poster

Automated Refugee Case Analysis: An NLP Pipeline for Supporting Legal Practitioners
Claire Barale, Michael Rovatsos, and Nehal Bhuta
ACL Findings 2023 | paper

fAsyLex: Accelerating Legal NLP through Comparative Analysis of Multi-GPU Approaches
Claire Barale
Women in High Performance Computing Workshop (WHPC) at SC2023 | slides

Empowering Refugee Claimants and their Lawyers: Using Machine Learning to Examine Decision-Making in Refugee Law
Claire Barale
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2023, Doctoral Consortium, Best Paper Award | paper

Human-Centered Computing in Legal NLP - An Application to Refugee Status Determination
Claire Barale
Second Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing at NAACL 2022 | paper

Refugee status determination: how cooperation with machine learning tools can lead to more justice
Claire Barale
Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN) Early Career Scholars Symposium 2022 | paper