OpenQuery, an LLM-powered tool for Freedom Of Information request processing
Law & Computer Science Project, 2024, with Daniel Leung, Christian Hagemeier, Isabel Ecker, Afra Nawar, Benedikt Freese, Akash Agrawal, Rodrigo La Rosa.
For the project part of the Law and Computer Science course at Oxford, we created OpenQuery, an LLM-powered tool for automating the FOI Act 2000. We follow a classical neuro-symbolic approach, mimicking the legal decision procedure by a (hard-coded) decision tree, and prompting the LLM only for individual decision nodes. This gives us the best of both worlds between guarantees (e.g. transparency and correctness) and performance.