COLING 2022main41 citations

ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining

Mohamed Elaraby, Diane Litman

Abstract

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative structure of legal documents by integrating argument role labeling into the summarization process. Experiments with pretrained language models show that our proposed approach improves performance over strong baselines.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{elaraby-litman-2022-arglegalsumm,
    title = "{A}rg{L}egal{S}umm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining",
    author = "Elaraby, Mohamed  and
      Litman, Diane",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Huang, Chu-Ren  and
      Kim, Hansaem  and
      Pustejovsky, James  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Choi, Key-Sun  and
      Ryu, Pum-Mo  and
      Chen, Hsin-Hsi  and
      Donatelli, Lucia  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao  and
      Paggio, Patrizia  and
      Xue, Nianwen  and
      Kim, Seokhwan  and
      Hahm, Younggyun  and
      He, Zhong  and
      Lee, Tony Kyungil  and
      Santus, Enrico  and
      Bond, Francis  and
      Na, Seung-Hoon",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.540/",
    pages = "6187--6194"
}
ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining · COLING 2022