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Legal case retrieval, which aims to retrieve relevant cases to a given query case, benefits judgment justice and attracts increasing attention. Unlike generic retrieval queries, legal case queries are typically long and the definition of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Youchao Zhou , Heyan Huang , Zhijing Wu

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

The availability of large-scale datasets has driven the development of neural models that create summaries from single documents, for generic purposes. When using a summarization system, users often have specific intents with various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yumo Xu , Mirella Lapata

Sentence extraction based summarization methods has some limitations as it doesn't go into the semantics of the document. Also, it lacks the capability of sentence generation which is intuitive to humans. Here we present a novel method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Divyanshu Bhartiya , Ashudeep Singh

Analysis and extraction of useful information from legal judgments using computational linguistics was one of the earliest problems posed in the domain of information retrieval. Presently, several commercial vendors exist who automate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sankalok Sen

Interpreting the law is always essential for the law to adapt to the ever-changing society. It is a critical and challenging task even for legal practitioners, as it requires meticulous and professional annotations and summarizations by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kangcheng Luo , Quzhe Huang , Cong Jiang , Yansong Feng

Abstractive summarization of scientific papers has always been a research focus, yet existing methods face two main challenges. First, most summarization models rely on Encoder-Decoder architectures that treat papers as sequences of words,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tong Bao , Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

Software documentation largely consists of short, natural language summaries of the subroutines in the software. These summaries help programmers quickly understand what a subroutine does without having to read the source code him or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sakib Haque , Alexander LeClair , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

The advent of Large Language Models has revolutionized tasks across domains, including the automation of legal document analysis, a critical component of modern contract management systems. This paper presents a comprehensive implementation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-23 Cuize Han , Sesh Jalagam

This paper proposes a knowledge-based legal document assembly method that uses a machine-readable representation of knowledge of legal professionals. This knowledgebase has two components - the formal knowledge of legal norms represented as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Marko Marković , Stevan Gostojić

Background: During software maintenance and development, the comprehension of program code is key to success. High-quality comments can help us better understand programs, but they're often missing or outmoded in today's programs. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yuxiang Zhu , Minxue Pan

Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

Domain specific information retrieval process has been a prominent and ongoing research in the field of natural language processing. Many researchers have incorporated different techniques to overcome the technical and domain specificity…

Systematic reviews are crucial for synthesizing scientific evidence but remain labor-intensive, especially when extracting detailed methodological information. Large language models (LLMs) offer potential for automating methodological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenqing Zhang , Trang Nguyen , Elizabeth A. Stuart , Yiqun T. Chen

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

Knowledge-aware methods have boosted a range of natural language processing applications over the last decades. With the gathered momentum, knowledge recently has been pumped into enormous attention in document summarization, one of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yutong Qu , Wei Emma Zhang , Jian Yang , Lingfei Wu , Jia Wu

Text segmentation is important for signaling a document's structure. Without segmenting a long document into topically coherent sections, it is difficult for readers to comprehend the text, let alone find important information. The problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sangwoo Cho , Kaiqiang Song , Xiaoyang Wang , Fei Liu , Dong Yu

Deep learning has led to significant improvement in text summarization with various methods investigated and improved ROUGE scores reported over the years. However, gaps still exist between summaries produced by automatic summarizers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Dandan Huang , Leyang Cui , Sen Yang , Guangsheng Bao , Kun Wang , Jun Xie , Yue Zhang

In legal matters, text classification models are most often used to filter through large datasets in search of documents that meet certain pre-selected criteria like relevance to a certain subject matter, such as legally privileged…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Keith Huffman , Jianping Zhang , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Fusheng Wei , Peter Gronvall

The automatic summarization of surgical videos is essential for enhancing procedural documentation, supporting surgical training, and facilitating post-operative analysis. This paper presents a novel method at the intersection of artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hugo Georgenthum , Cristian Cosentino , Fabrizio Marozzo , Pietro Liò