From Query to Counsel: Structured Reasoning with a Multi-Agent Framework and Dataset for Legal Consultation

arXiv:2604.10470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legal consultation question answering (Legal CQA) presents unique challenges compared to traditional legal QA tasks, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, complex task composition, and strong contextual dependencies. To address these, we construct JurisCQAD, a large-scale dataset of over 43,000 real-world Chinese legal queries annotated with expert-validated positive and negative responses, and design a structured task decompositi