ELLA: Empowering LLMs for Interpretable, Accurate and Informative Legal Advice
Yutong Hu, Kangcheng Luo, Yansong Feng

TL;DR
ELLA enhances legal LLMs by visually linking legal articles to responses, enabling user interaction for improved accuracy and interpretability, and providing relevant legal cases to support comprehensive legal advice.
Contribution
ELLA introduces an interactive tool that visually correlates legal articles with LLM responses, improving interpretability and accuracy in legal advice.
Findings
User understanding improves with legal basis visualization.
Response accuracy increases with user-selected legal articles.
Providing legal cases enriches the information quality.
Abstract
Despite remarkable performance in legal consultation exhibited by legal Large Language Models(LLMs) combined with legal article retrieval components, there are still cases when the advice given is incorrect or baseless. To alleviate these problems, we propose {\bf ELLA}, a tool for {\bf E}mpowering {\bf L}LMs for interpretable, accurate, and informative {\bf L}egal {\bf A}dvice. ELLA visually presents the correlation between legal articles and LLM's response by calculating their similarities, providing users with an intuitive legal basis for the responses. Besides, based on the users' queries, ELLA retrieves relevant legal articles and displays them to users. Users can interactively select legal articles for LLM to generate more accurate responses. ELLA also retrieves relevant legal cases for user reference. Our user study shows that presenting the legal basis for the response helps…
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TopicsArtificial Intelligence in Law
