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This paper conducts a comparative study on the performance of various machine learning (``ML'') approaches for classifying judgments into legal areas. Using a novel dataset of 6,227 Singapore Supreme Court judgments, we investigate how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Jerrold Soh Tsin Howe , Lim How Khang , Ian Ernst Chai

An abstract must not change the meaning of the original text. A single most effective way to achieve that is to increase the amount of copying while still allowing for text abstraction. Human editors can usually exercise control over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Liu Ren , Fei Liu

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Abstractive multi document summarization has evolved as a task through the basic sequence to sequence approaches to transformer and graph based techniques. Each of these approaches has primarily focused on the issues of multi document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Aiswarya Sankar , Ankit Chadha

Summarization is a way to represent same information in concise way with equal sense. This can be categorized in two type Abstractive and Extractive type. Our work is focused around Extractive summarization. A generic approach to extractive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chandra Shekhar Yadav , Aditi Sharan

Highlighting while reading is a natural behavior for people to track salient content of a document. It would be desirable to teach an extractive summarizer to do the same. However, a major obstacle to the development of a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Kristjan Arumae , Fei Liu

Reviewing and comprehending key obligations, entitlements, and prohibitions in legal contracts can be a tedious task due to their length and domain-specificity. Furthermore, the key rights and duties requiring review vary for each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Abhilasha Sancheti , Aparna Garimella , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Rachel Rudinger

Identifying, classifying, and analyzing arguments in legal discourse has been a prominent area of research since the inception of the argument mining field. However, there has been a major discrepancy between the way natural language…

The rapid expansion of video content across a variety of industries, including social media, education, entertainment, and surveillance, has made video summarization an essential field of study. The current work is a survey that explores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Toqa Alaa , Ahmad Mongy , Assem Bakr , Mariam Diab , Walid Gomaa

Retrieval-augmented language models can better adapt to changes in world state and incorporate long-tail knowledge. However, most existing methods retrieve only short contiguous chunks from a retrieval corpus, limiting holistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Parth Sarthi , Salman Abdullah , Aditi Tuli , Shubh Khanna , Anna Goldie , Christopher D. Manning

This paper presents novel prompting techniques to improve the performance of automatic summarization systems for scientific articles. Scientific article summarization is highly challenging due to the length and complexity of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Aldan Creo , Manuel Lama , Juan C. Vidal

Citizen reporting platforms help the public and authorities stay informed about sexual harassment incidents. However, the high volume of data shared on these platforms makes reviewing each individual case challenging. Therefore, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Garima Chhikara , Anurag Sharma , V. Gurucharan , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Abhijnan Chakraborty

Global partisan hostility and polarization has increased, and this polarization is heightened around presidential elections. Models capable of generating accurate summaries of diverse perspectives can help reduce such polarization by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nicholas Deas , Kathleen McKeown

Modeling legal reasoning and argumentation justifying decisions in cases has always been central to AI & Law, yet contemporary developments in legal NLP have increasingly focused on statistically classifying legal conclusions from text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 T. Y. S. S Santosh , Kevin D. Ashley , Katie Atkinson , Matthias Grabmair

The number of documents available into Internet moves each day up. For this reason, processing this amount of information effectively and expressibly becomes a major concern for companies and scientists. Methods that represent a textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Mohamed Morchid , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Richard Dufour , Javier Ramírez-Rodríguez , Georges Linarès

Long context inference presents challenges at the system level with increased compute and memory requirements, as well as from an accuracy perspective in being able to reason over long contexts. Recently, several methods have been proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Siddharth Jha , Lutfi Eren Erdogan , Sehoon Kim , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

Legal professionals often struggle with lengthy judgments and require efficient summarization for quick comprehension. To address this challenge, we investigate the need for structured planning in legal case summarization, particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 T. Y. S. S. Santosh , Youssef Farag , Matthias Grabmair

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wencan Luo , Fei Liu , Zitao Liu , Diane Litman

Abstractive summarization has made significant strides in condensing and rephrasing large volumes of text into coherent summaries. However, summarizing administrative documents presents unique challenges due to domain-specific terminology,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Phan Phuong Mai Chau , Souhail Bakkali , Antoine Doucet

Previous abstractive methods apply sequence-to-sequence structures to generate summary without a module to assist the system to detect vital mentions and relationships within a document. To address this problem, we utilize semantic graph to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Qiwei Bi , Haoyuan Li , Kun Lu , Hanfang Yang