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This paper presents a deep learning-based system for efficient automatic case summarization. Leveraging state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques, the system offers both supervised and unsupervised methods to generate concise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Minh Duong , Long Nguyen , Yen Vuong , Trong Le , Ha-Thanh Nguyen

We propose a simple approach for the abstractive summarization of long legal opinions that considers the argument structure of the document. Legal opinions often contain complex and nuanced argumentation, making it challenging to generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mohamed Elaraby , Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

To undertake computational research of the law, efficiently identifying datasets of court decisions that relate to a specific legal issue is a crucial yet challenging endeavour. This study addresses the gap in the literature working with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Ahmed Izzidien , Holli Sargeant , Felix Steffek

Legal documents are indispensable in every country for legal practices and serve as the primary source of information regarding previous cases and employed statutes. In today's world, with an increasing number of judicial cases, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Krish Didwania , Durga Toshniwal , Amit Agarwal

Automatic text summarization aims to produce a brief but crucial summary for the input documents. Both extractive and abstractive methods have witnessed great success in English datasets in recent years. However, there has been a minimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Danqing Wang , Jiaze Chen , Xianze Wu , Hao Zhou , Lei Li

Automatic summarisation is a popular approach to reduce a document to its main arguments. Recent research in the area has focused on neural approaches to summarisation, which can be very data-hungry. However, few large datasets exist and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ed Collins , Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Riedel

In the evolving NLP landscape, benchmarks serve as yardsticks for gauging progress. However, existing Legal NLP benchmarks only focus on predictive tasks, overlooking generative tasks. This work curates LexSumm, a benchmark designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 T. Y. S. S. Santosh , Cornelius Weiss , Matthias Grabmair

Legal professionals frequently encounter long legal judgments that hold critical insights for their work. While recent advances have led to automated summarization solutions for legal documents, they typically provide generic summaries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 T. Y. S. S Santosh , Mahmoud Aly , Matthias Grabmair

Large Language Models (LLMs), trained on extensive datasets from the web, exhibit remarkable general reasoning skills. Despite this, they often struggle in specialized areas like law, mainly because they lack domain-specific pretraining.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mann Khatri , Mirza Yusuf , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

With the increasing usage of the internet, more and more data is being digitized including parliamentary debates but they are in an unstructured format. There is a need to convert them into a structured format for linguistic analysis. Much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Sakala Venkata Krishna Rohit , Navjyoti Singh

This study aims to develop a semi-automatically labelled prosody database for Hindi, for enhancing the intonation component in ASR and TTS systems, which is also helpful for building Speech to Speech Machine Translation systems. Although no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Esha Banerjee , Atul Kr. Ojha , Girish Nath Jha

Though many algorithms can be used to automatically summarize legal case decisions, most fail to incorporate domain knowledge about how important sentences in a legal decision relate to a representation of its document structure. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

Existing summarization datasets come with two main drawbacks: (1) They tend to focus on overly exposed domains, such as news articles or wiki-like texts, and (2) are primarily monolingual, with few multilingual datasets. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dennis Aumiller , Ashish Chouhan , Michael Gertz

Legal research depends on headnotes: concise summaries that help lawyers quickly identify relevant cases. Yet, many court decisions lack them due to the high cost of manual annotation. To address this gap, we introduce the Swiss Landmark…

Legal systems worldwide continue to struggle with overwhelming caseloads, limited judicial resources, and growing complexities in legal proceedings. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a promising solution, with Legal Judgment Prediction…

Summarization datasets are often assembled either by scraping naturally occurring public-domain summaries -- which are nearly always in difficult-to-work-with technical domains -- or by using approximate heuristics to extract them from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alex Wang , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Angelica Chen , Jason Phang , Samuel R. Bowman

Most existing text summarization datasets are compiled from the news domain, where summaries have a flattened discourse structure. In such datasets, summary-worthy content often appears in the beginning of input articles. Moreover, large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Eva Sharma , Chen Li , Lu Wang

The fast-growing amount of information on the Internet makes the research in automatic document summarization very urgent. It is an effective solution for information overload. Many approaches have been proposed based on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zuping Zhang , Jun Long , Khaled Alwesabi

Automatic document summarization aims to produce a concise summary covering the input document's salient information. Within a report document, the salient information can be scattered in the textual and non-textual content. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shuaiqi Liu , Jiannong Cao , Ruosong Yang , Zhiyuan Wen

The Brazilian judiciary has a large workload, resulting in a long time to finish legal proceedings. Brazilian National Council of Justice has established in Resolution 469/2022 formal guidance for document and process digitalization opening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel da Silva Junior , Paulo Roberto dos S. Corval , Aline Paes , Daniel de Oliveira