ProvBench: A Benchmark of Legal Provision Recommendation for Contract Auto-Reviewing
Xiuxuan Shen, Zhongyuan Jiang, Junsan Zhang, Junxiao Han, Yao Wan, Chengjie Guo, Bingcheng Liu, Jie Wu, Renxiang Li, Philip S. Yu
Abstract
Contract review is a critical process to protect the rights and interests of the parties involved. However, this process is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly, especially when a contract faces multiple rounds of review. To accelerate the contract review and promote the completion of transactions, this paper introduces a novel benchmark of legal provision recommendation and conflict detection for contract auto-reviewing (ProvBench), which aims to recommend the legal provisions related to contract clauses and detect possible legal conflicts. Specifically, we construct the first Legal Provision Recommendation Dataset: ProvData, which covers 8 common contract types. In addition, we conduct extensive experiments to evaluate ProvBench on various state-of-the-art models. Experimental results validate the feasibility of ProvBench and demonstrate the effectiveness of ProvData. Finally, we identify potential challenges in the ProvBench and advocate for further investigation.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.acl-long.312
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6240–6254
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.acl-long.312/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Xiuxuan Shen, Zhongyuan Jiang, Junsan Zhang, Junxiao Han, Yao Wan, Chengjie Guo, Bingcheng Liu, Jie Wu, Renxiang Li, and Philip S. Yu. 2025. ProvBench: A Benchmark of Legal Provision Recommendation for Contract Auto-Reviewing. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6240–6254, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- ProvBench: A Benchmark of Legal Provision Recommendation for Contract Auto-Reviewing (Shen et al., ACL 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.acl-long.312.pdf