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The amount of text data available online is increasing at a very fast pace hence text summarization has become essential. Most of the modern recommender and text classification systems require going through a huge amount of data. Manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Anushka Gupta , Diksha Chugh , Anjum , Rahul Katarya

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

Understanding the legally relevant factual basis of an event and conveying it through text is a key skill of legal professionals. This skill is important for preparing forms (e.g., insurance claims) or other legal documents (e.g., court…

We use the combination of argumentative zoning [1] and a legal argumentative scheme to create legal argumentative segments. Based on the argumentative segmentation, we propose a novel task of classifying argumentative segments of legal case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Huihui Xu , Kevin Ashley

We present our method for tackling a legal case retrieval task by introducing our method of encoding documents by summarizing them into continuous vector space via our phrase scoring framework utilizing deep neural networks. On the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Vu Tran , Minh Le Nguyen , Satoshi Tojo , Ken Satoh

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

BERT and its variants are extensively explored for automated scoring. However, a limit of 512 tokens for these encoder-based models showed the deficiency in automated scoring of long essays. Thus, this research explores generative language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Haowei Hua , Hong Jiao , Xinyi Wang

Cross-lingual text summarization aims at generating a document summary in one language given input in another language. It is a practically important but under-explored task, primarily due to the dearth of available data. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zi-Yi Dou , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov

We present a cross-lingual summarisation corpus with long documents in a source language associated with multi-sentence summaries in a target language. The corpus covers twelve language pairs and directions for four European languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Laura Perez-Beltrachini , Mirella Lapata

Large Language Models have advanced clinical Natural Language Generation, creating opportunities to manage the volume of medical text. However, the high-stakes nature of medicine requires reliable evaluation, which remains a challenge. In…

Text summarizing is a critical Natural Language Processing (NLP) task with applications ranging from information retrieval to content generation. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in generating fluent abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Colleen Gilhuly , Haleh Shahzad

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled new ways to satisfy information needs. Although great strides have been made in applying them to settings like document ranking and short-form text generation, they still struggle to compose…

Detecting factual inconsistency for long document summarization remains challenging, given the complex structure of the source article and long summary length. In this work, we study factual inconsistency errors and connect them with a line…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Zhong , Diane Litman

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle in specialized domains such as legal reasoning due to limited expert knowledge, resulting in factually incorrect outputs or hallucinations. This paper presents an effective method for adapting…

The integration of language models in the legal domain holds considerable promise for streamlining processes and improving efficiency in managing extensive workloads. However, the specialized terminology, nuanced language, and formal style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Þórir Hrafn Harðarson , Hrafn Loftsson , Stefán Ólafsson

Summarization of legal judgments poses a heavy cognitive burden on law practitioners due to the complexity of the language, context-sensitive legal jargon, and the length of the document. Therefore, the automatic summarization of legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Purnima Bindal , Vikas Kumar , Sagar Rathore , Vasudha Bhatnagar

Automatic Text Summarization strategies have been successfully employed to digest text collections and extract its essential content. Usually, summaries are generated using textual corpora that belongs to the same domain area where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Vinicius Woloszyn , Guilherme Medeiros Machado , Leandro Krug Wives , José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira

We study the ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate comprehensive and accurate book summaries solely from their internal knowledge, without recourse to the original text. Employing a diverse set of books and multiple LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Javier Coronado-Blázquez

Legal texts routinely use concepts that are difficult to understand. Lawyers elaborate on the meaning of such concepts by, among other things, carefully investigating how have they been used in past. Finding text snippets that mention a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jaromir Savelka , Kevin D. Ashley

While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to summarize long documents, this trend poses significant challenges in the legal domain, where the factual accuracy of deposition summaries is crucial. Nugget-based methods have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Naghmeh Farzi , Laura Dietz , Dave D. Lewis