LexAbSumm: Aspect-based Summarization of Legal Decisions
Santosh T.y.s.s., Mahmoud Aly, Matthias Grabmair
Abstract
Legal professionals frequently encounter long legal judgments that hold critical insights for their work. While recent advances have led to automated summarization solutions for legal documents, they typically provide generic summaries, which may not meet the diverse information needs of users. To address this gap, we introduce LexAbSumm, a novel dataset designed for aspect-based summarization of legal case decisions, sourced from the European Court of Human Rights jurisdiction. We evaluate several abstractive summarization models tailored for longer documents on LexAbSumm, revealing a challenge in conditioning these models to produce aspect-specific summaries. We release LexAbSum to facilitate research in aspect-based summarization for legal domain.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{t-y-s-s-etal-2024-lexabsumm,
title = "{L}ex{A}b{S}umm: Aspect-based Summarization of Legal Decisions",
author = "T.y.s.s., Santosh and
Aly, Mahmoud and
Grabmair, Matthias",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Kan, Min-Yen and
Hoste, Veronique and
Lenci, Alessandro and
Sakti, Sakriani and
Xue, Nianwen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.911/",
pages = "10422--10431"
}