@inproceedings{maslaris-arampatzis-2024-duth,
    title = "{DUT}h at {S}em{E}val 2024 Task 5: A multi-task learning approach for the Legal Argument Reasoning Task in Civil Procedure",
    author = "Maslaris, Ioannis  and
      Arampatzis, Avi",
    editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Tayyar Madabushi, Harish  and
      Da San Martino, Giovanni  and
      Rosenthal, Sara  and
      Ros{\'a}, Aiala},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.semeval-1.152/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.152",
    pages = "1053--1057",
    abstract = "Text-generative models have proven to be good reasoners. Although reasoning abilities are mostly observed in larger language models, a number of strategies try to transfer this skill to smaller language models. This paper presents our approach to SemEval 2024 Task-5: The Legal Argument Reasoning Task in Civil Procedure. This shared task aims to develop a system that efficiently handles a multiple-choice question-answering task in the context of the US civil procedure domain. The dataset provides a human-generated rationale for each answer. Given the complexity of legal issues, this task certainly challenges the reasoning abilities of LLMs and AI systems in general. Our work explores fine-tuning an LLM as a correct/incorrect answer classifier. In this context, we are making use of multi-task learning toincorporate the rationales into the fine-tuning process."
}