Statutory Article Retrieval from Arabic Judicial Narratives: Family Law and Law of Evidence in Saudi Arabia
arXiv:2610.38336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable legal information retrieval must ground legal reasoning in authoritative statutory sources. In Arabic judicial settings, long factual narratives must be mapped to concise articles that express abstract legal rules, creating a narrative-to-legal-rule abstraction gap. Using a benchmark of 200 synthetic Saudi Arabic judicial cases and 381 articles from the Family Law and the Law of Evidence, we compare word-level and char-4 BM25, zero-shot…