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.
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2025.acl-long.312
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6240–6254
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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.
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ProvBench: A Benchmark of Legal Provision Recommendation for Contract Auto-Reviewing (Shen et al., ACL 2025)
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