NormBench
NormBench evaluates defeasible scope parsing in legal texts using Span-Grounded Deontic Trees, with 2,290 provisions across multiple languages. It focuses on identifying clause overrides and includes whole-tree fidelity metrics.
- Released
- 2026-06-08
- Readiness
- Paper only
- Primary field
- General AI
Why it matters
Silent Scope Omission is a critical failure in rule-following agents. NormBench provides a diagnostic benchmark to identify structural omissions and improve statutory understanding in LLMs.
Motivation
Rule-following agents tasked with executing policies and regulations often fail via Silent Scope Omission (SSO): a model applies a general rule but silently drops nested exceptions or counter-exceptions, producing outputs that appear compliant yet break on important edge cases.
Primary resources
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