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This paper introduces HADES, a novel tool for automatic comparative documents with similar structures. HADES is designed to streamline the work of professionals dealing with large volumes of documents, such as policy documents, legal acts,…

Summarization is one of the key features of human intelligence. It plays an important role in understanding and representation. With rapid and continual expansion of texts, pictures and videos in cyberspace, automatic summarization becomes…

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Abstractive text summarization aims at compressing the information of a long source document into a rephrased, condensed summary. Despite advances in modeling techniques, abstractive summarization models still suffer from several key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vidhisha Balachandran , Artidoro Pagnoni , Jay Yoon Lee , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Jaime Carbonell , Yulia Tsvetkov

Automatic text summarization tools have a great impact on many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research in general. As information overload increases, automatic summaries allow handling the growing volume of documents, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Augusto Villa-Monte , Laura Lanzarini , Aurelio F. Bariviera , José A. Olivas

Legal documents are unstructured, use legal jargon, and have considerable length, making them difficult to process automatically via conventional text processing techniques. A legal document processing system would benefit substantially if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Vijit Malik , Rishabh Sanjay , Shouvik Kumar Guha , Angshuman Hazarika , Shubham Nigam , Arnab Bhattacharya , Ashutosh Modi

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata

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

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

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…

Efficient text retrieval is critical for applications such as legal document analysis, particularly in specialized contexts like Japanese legal systems. Existing retrieval methods often underperform in such domain-specific scenarios,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Quang Hoang Trung , Le Trung Hoang , Nguyen Van Hoang Phuc

The ability to automatically identify industry sector coverage in articles on legal developments, or any kind of news articles for that matter, can bring plentiful of benefits both to the readers and the content creators themselves. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hui Yang , Stella Hadjiantoni , Yunfei Long , Ruta Petraityte , Berthold Lausen

The processing of legal texts has been developing as an emerging field in natural language processing (NLP). Legal texts contain unique jargon and complex linguistic attributes in vocabulary, semantics, syntax, and morphology. Therefore,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mert Cemri , Tolga Çukur , Aykut Koç

Automatic text summarization tools help users in biomedical domain to acquire their intended information from various textual resources more efficiently. Some of the biomedical text summarization systems put the basis of their sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Milad Moradi , Nasser Ghadiri

Legal document retrieval and judgment prediction are crucial tasks in intelligent legal systems. In practice, determining whether two documents share the same judgments is essential for establishing their relevance in legal retrieval.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Weicong Qin , Zelin Cao , Weijie Yu , Zihua Si , Sirui Chen , Jun Xu

Automatic summarization of legal case judgements has traditionally been attempted by using extractive summarization methods. However, in recent years, abstractive summarization models are gaining popularity since they can generate more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aniket Deroy , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh

We develop an abstractive summarization framework independent of labeled data for multiple heterogeneous documents. Unlike existing multi-document summarization methods, our framework processes documents telling different stories instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ning Wang , Han Liu , Diego Klabjan

We propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora, and illustrate how it can be used for analysis in two quite different contexts: an OSHA database of fatality and catastrophe reports (to facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Luke Miratrix , Robin Ackerman

This study introduces a method for automating the consolidation process in a legal context, a time-consuming task traditionally performed by legal professionals. We present a generative approach that processes legislative texts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Matias Etcheverry , Thibaud Real , Pauline Chavallard

Automatic summarization systems have advanced rapidly with large language models (LLMs), yet they still lack reliable guarantees on inclusion of critical content in high-stakes domains like healthcare, law, and finance. In this work, we…

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