Team UTSA-NLP at SemEval 2024 Task 5: Prompt Ensembling for Argument
  Reasoning in Civil Procedures with GPT4
Dan Schumacher Anthony Rios
In this paper, we present our system for the SemEval Task 5, The Legal
Argument Reasoning Task in Civil Procedure Challenge. Legal argument reasoning
is an essential skill that all law students must master. Moreover, it is
important to develop natural language processing solutions that can reason
about a question given terse domain-specific contextual information. Our system
explores a prompt-based solution using GPT4 to reason over legal arguments. We
also evaluate an ensemble of prompting strategies, including chain-of-thought
reasoning and in-context learning. Overall, our system results in a Macro F1 of
.8095 on the validation dataset and .7315 (5th out of 21 teams) on the final
test set. Code for this project is available at
https://github.com/danschumac1/CivilPromptReasoningGPT4.