Meitong Guo
2026
"I Don’t Know What to Say": A Fact-Filling Questionnaire Method to Help Non-Experts Talk to LegalAI Assistant
Yuting Huang | Yiquan Wu | Meitong Guo | Ang Li | Xiaozhong Liu | Keting Yin | Fei Wu | Kun Kuang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yuting Huang | Yiquan Wu | Meitong Guo | Ang Li | Xiaozhong Liu | Keting Yin | Fei Wu | Kun Kuang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Artificial intelligence has become increasingly prevalent in the legal domain. However, LegalAI systems often struggle with vague user queries that lack essential legal details, leading to suboptimal performance in practical applications. To address this challenge, we propose FactFiller, a novel approach that dynamically generates questionnaires to help users refine their input queries. Our method leverages an iterative training process that collects valuable questionnaires, eliminating the need for human annotation. Additionally, we introduce a "case-law-quiz” cascading retrieval process, ensuring that the generated questions and answer options are directly linked to specific legal provisions. Through the user study and the downstream task experiments, we demonstrate that FactFiller, while remaining easy for non-experts to understand, not only improves the completeness of queries but also ensures the performance of various domain-specific models in downstream legal tasks.