Aalap: AI Assistant for Legal & Paralegal Functions in India
Aman Tiwari Prathamesh Kalamkar Atreyo Banerjee Saurabh Karn Varun Hemachandran Smita Gupta
Using proprietary Large Language Models on legal tasks poses challenges due
to data privacy issues, domain data heterogeneity, domain knowledge
sophistication, and domain objectives uniqueness. We created Aalalp, a
fine-tuned Mistral 7B model on instructions data related to specific Indian
legal tasks. The performance of Aalap is better than gpt-3.5-turbo in 31\% of
our test data and obtains an equivalent score in 34\% of the test data as
evaluated by GPT4. Training Aalap mainly focuses on teaching legal reasoning
rather than legal recall. Aalap is definitely helpful for the day-to-day
activities of lawyers, judges, or anyone working in legal systems.