Cross-Lingual Legal QA for Vietnamese Labour Law: Retrieval, Translation, and Verifier-Guided Correction

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arXiv:2609.27376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual legal question answering must retrieve statutes across languages while preventing unsupported legal claims. We introduce a bilingual evaluation suite of 231 Vietnamese--English question--answer pairs from Vietnamese labour law. Of these, 75 are additionally annotated for five challenging legal reasoning phenomena. We evaluate a verifier-guided pipeline that decomposes answers into claims, checks citation reachability and entailment, a