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.
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2022.coling-1.540
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6187–6194
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.540
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Mohamed Elaraby and Diane Litman. 2022. ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6187–6194, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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