@inproceedings{khadloya-etal-2025-courtnav,
    title = "{C}ourt{N}av: Voice-Guided, Anchor-Accurate Navigation of Long Legal Documents in Courtrooms",
    author = "Khadloya, Sai  and
      Juvekar, Kush  and
      Bhattacharya, Arghya  and
      Saxena, Utkarsh",
    editor = "Aletras, Nikolaos  and
      Chalkidis, Ilias  and
      Barrett, Leslie  and
      Goanț{\u{a}}, C{\u{a}}t{\u{a}}lina  and
      Preoțiuc-Pietro, Daniel  and
      Spanakis, Gerasimos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2025",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.nllp-1.25/",
    pages = "351--358",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-338-8",
    abstract = "Judicial work depends on close reading of longrecords, charge sheets, pleadings, annexures,orders, often spanning hundreds of pages. Withlimited staff support, exhaustive reading duringhearings is impractical. We present CourtNav,a voice-guided, anchor-first navigator for legalPDFs that maps a judge{'}s spoken command(e.g., ``go to paragraph 23'', ``highlight the contradiction in the cross-examination'') directlyto a highlighted paragraph in seconds. CourtNav transcribes the command, classifies intentwith a grammar-first, LLM-backed router, retrieves over a layout-aware hybrid index, andauto-scrolls the viewer to the cited span whilehighlighting it and close alternates. By design, the interface shows only grounded pas-sages, never free text, keeping evidence verifiable and auditable. This need is acute in India, where judgments and cross-examinations notoriously long.In a pilot on representative charge sheets, pleadings, and orders, median time-to-relevance drops from 3{--}5 minutes (manual navigation) to 10{--}15 seconds;with quick visual verification included, 30{--}45seconds. Under fixed time budgets, thisnavigation-first design increases the breadth ofthe record actually consulted while preservingcontrol and transparency"
}