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Preprint links legal-school filtering to better Arabic Islamic-law search

An arXiv preprint evaluates ways to retrieve answer-bearing passages from an Arabic Islamic jurisprudence collection. Fiqh-specific fine-tuning was associated with higher retrieval scores, while legal-school filtering was associated with the largest reported gains on school-specific questions. The evaluation stopped before testing generated-answer quality.

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Preprint maps millions of academic affiliations into institutional hierarchies

A new preprint presents a large dataset covering 18,635 educational institutions. Expert testing produced strong name-disambiguation scores, while benchmark checks were less complete for nested organizational relationships.

Liang, Z., Mao, J. & Li, G. A large-scale dataset of sub-institution name disambiguation and hierarchical structures from OpenAlex. Sci Data (2026)5 min read