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Local grammar graphs generate 700 million labeled utterances to train a legal chatbot classifier to 91% F1-score.

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load-bearing objection LGG-generated synthetic data scales to 700M Korean legal utterances and hits 91% F1 with DIET, but the score is almost certainly measured inside the same generated pool. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2605.07432 v1 submitted 2026-05-08 cs.CL cs.LG

Generating training datasets for legal chatbots in Korean

Changhoe Hwang , Jee-Sun Nam , Eric Laporte This is my paper
classification cs.CL cs.LG
keywords legal chatbotsdataset generationlocal grammar graphsintent classificationKorean NLPDIET classifierUnitex
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The paper demonstrates a method to build large training datasets for legal chatbots by creating local grammar graphs that encode vocabulary, local syntax, and intent labels drawn from legal texts. Rather than collecting real user conversations and paying for manual labeling, the graphs allow automatic production of both utterances and their classifications at massive scale. The approach was tested by generating data for Korean legal queries and training a DIET classifier on 700 million examples, which reached 91% F1-score. The resulting model powers LIGA, a chatbot that responds to user questions by linking to publicly available similar legal cases from Korean government sources. This matters because it lowers the cost barrier to creating effective legal chatbots that could expand access to justice information.

Core claim

Local grammar graphs (LGGs) that capture vocabulary and local syntax observed in legal texts, while associating domain-specific intent labels, can be used with the Unitex platform to generate hundreds of millions of labeled utterances. In the Korean legal domain this produced a dataset of 700 million utterances on which a DIET classifier was trained, attaining 91% F1-score performance for selecting links to similar legal cases.

What carries the argument

Local grammar graphs (LGGs), language resources that generalize observed vocabulary and local syntax from texts while directly associating user-intent labels according to a domain classification system.

Load-bearing premise

The utterances and labels produced by the local grammar graphs sufficiently capture the diversity, phrasing, and intent distribution of actual user queries on legal situations.

What would settle it

Measuring the DIET classifier's F1-score on a fresh collection of real user queries gathered independently of the LGGs, or running the deployed LIGA chatbot with actual users and tracking whether intent selections match human judgments at similar rates.

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If this is right

  • Dataset creation scales to hundreds of millions of labeled examples without a matching rise in manual annotation cost.
  • The trained classifier enables a chatbot that retrieves links to similar legal cases for conversational queries.
  • The 91% F1-score shows the generated data supports effective intent classification in the legal domain.
  • The full pipeline was implemented as the working LIGA chatbot for Korean legal situations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The same graph-based generation technique could be applied to other specialized domains where labeled conversational data is scarce.
  • Extending the method to additional languages might support legal information tools in settings with limited annotated corpora.
  • Direct comparison of generated data against real query logs could quantify how closely the LGG distribution matches user behavior.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that local grammar graphs (LGGs) implemented in the open-source Unitex platform can be used to jointly generate large volumes of utterances and their intent labels, producing 700 million examples for a Korean legal chatbot. A DIET classifier trained on this synthetic data reaches 91% F1-score and is integrated into the LIGA system to retrieve links to similar government-provided legal cases.

Significance. If the generated data generalizes, the approach could offer a scalable, low-cost alternative to manual annotation for building intent classifiers in specialized domains such as legal advice. The scale of 700 million examples and the use of open-source linguistic tools represent concrete engineering contributions. However, the absence of any evaluation on authentic user queries limits the demonstrated impact to synthetic settings.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The reported 91% F1-score for the DIET classifier is presented without any information on test-set provenance. It is not stated whether the test utterances are held-out examples drawn from the same LGG-generated pool or independent real user queries. This distinction is load-bearing for the central claim that the method produces usable training data for a legal chatbot.
  2. [Method and Evaluation] Method and Evaluation sections: Labels are assigned by the identical LGGs that generate the utterances, so the classifier is trained to reproduce the grammar rules and classification scheme embedded in the generator. No validation of the LGGs against a corpus of authentic legal queries is described, leaving open the possibility that performance reflects interpolation within the synthetic grammar rather than capture of natural phrasing and intent distribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and detailed comments, which help clarify the scope and limitations of our evaluation. We address each major comment below and will make targeted revisions to improve transparency without altering the core contribution of using LGGs for scalable synthetic data generation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The reported 91% F1-score for the DIET classifier is presented without any information on test-set provenance. It is not stated whether the test utterances are held-out examples drawn from the same LGG-generated pool or independent real user queries. This distinction is load-bearing for the central claim that the method produces usable training data for a legal chatbot.

    Authors: We agree that the test-set provenance must be stated explicitly. The 91% F1-score was measured on a held-out subset of utterances generated by the same LGGs (random 10% split, no overlap with training data). This evaluates the classifier's ability to reproduce the intent labels defined by the grammar rules. We will revise the abstract and Evaluation section to state this clearly and add a sentence noting that evaluation on independent real-user queries remains future work, as no such labeled corpus was available. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Method and Evaluation] Method and Evaluation sections: Labels are assigned by the identical LGGs that generate the utterances, so the classifier is trained to reproduce the grammar rules and classification scheme embedded in the generator. No validation of the LGGs against a corpus of authentic legal queries is described, leaving open the possibility that performance reflects interpolation within the synthetic grammar rather than capture of natural phrasing and intent distribution.

    Authors: The method intentionally uses the same LGGs for generation and labeling to ensure consistency at scale. The LGGs were manually constructed by linguists from patterns observed in Korean legal texts and sample queries, then generalized via Unitex. We did not perform an independent distributional comparison against a held-out corpus of authentic user queries. We will expand the Method section with additional details on LGG construction and add a Limitations paragraph acknowledging that the reported performance demonstrates fidelity to the grammar-defined scheme rather than direct generalization to unseen natural phrasing. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in data generation and evaluation chain

full rationale

The paper describes generating 700 million labeled utterances via LGGs in Unitex, then training a DIET classifier on that dataset and reporting 91% F1. This is a direct empirical outcome of supervised training on consistently labeled synthetic data; the F1 measures how well the model approximates the LGG-provided labeling scheme on held-out portions of the same generated pool. No claimed prediction or first-principles result reduces to its inputs by construction, no self-citations are load-bearing for any uniqueness theorem, and no ansatz or renaming is involved. The derivation is self-contained as a feasibility demonstration of the generation method itself.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The approach rests on the assumption that linguists can manually encode sufficient coverage of legal query patterns into LGGs; no free parameters are fitted numerically, but the graphs themselves are hand-crafted domain resources.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Local grammar graphs built by linguists capture the vocabulary, local syntax, and intent classes of real legal queries in Korean
    Invoked when the authors state that LGGs 'capture and generalize the vocabulary and local syntax observed by linguists in text'

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Chatbots are robots that can communicate with humans using text or voice signals. Legal chatbots improve access to justice, since legal representation and legal advice by lawyers come with a high cost that excludes disadvantaged and vulnerable people. However, capturing the diversity of actual user input in datasets for deep-learning dialog systems (chatbots) is a technical challenge. Diversity requires large volumes of data, which must also be labelled in order to classify the user's intent, while the cost of labelling datasets increases with volume. Instead of labelling large volumes of authentic data from users, our approach consists in jointly generating large volumes of utterances and high-quality labels. The generator of labelled datasets is based on language resources that take the form of local grammar graphs (LGG), which capture and generalize the vocabulary and local syntax observed by linguists in text. The LGGs associate labels to the utterances according to a domain-specific classification system. We tested this approach by implementing LIGA, a legal chatbot in Korean. The chatbot answers users' conversational queries on legal situations by providing information on similar legal cases, made publicly available by the Korean government. We generated labelled utterances from the LGGs with the aid of the open-source Unitex platform. This process produced 700 million utterances. We trained a DIET classifier on a dataset made of these utterances, and the trained model reached 91% f1-score performance. We implemented a chatbot called LIGA, which uses the results of the model to select a link to a web page that documents similar legal cases.

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