Interpretive Canons (BVerfG) - Objective-Teleological Interpretation: leaderboard

Objective-teleological interpretation from the interpretive-canons benchmark on decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Ringe, ICML 2026 AI4Law Workshop): does an argument rest on the objective purpose of the provision. Positive-class F1 in percent on 120 held-out sentence pairs, with one expert-written prompt for every model; higher is better.

Metric: Positive-class F1 (%; objective-teleological interpretation (zweck): whether the argument rests on the purpose of the provision, sentence-level binary classification in German Federal Constitutional Court decisions; expert-written prompt with worked examples (the same for every model), reasoning models at temperature 1.0; decision-disjoint held-out test split (60% of each subtask, 1:3 positives to negatives)). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1DeepSeek V4 Pro74.1#181
2MiniMax-M373.1#265
3DeepSeek V4 Flash71.7#254
4Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite66.7#300

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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