Leonardo de Andrade


2023

Legal document summarization aims to provide a clear understanding of the main points and arguments in a legal document, contributing to the efficiency of the judicial system. In this paper, we propose BB25HLegalSum, a method that combines BERT clusters with the BM25 algorithm to summarize legal documents and present them to users with highlighted important information. The process involves selecting unique, relevant sentences from the original document, clustering them to find sentences about a similar subject, combining them to generate a summary according to three strategies, and highlighting them to the user in the original document. We outperformed baseline techniques using the BillSum dataset, a widely used benchmark in legal document summarization. Legal workers positively assessed the highlighted presentation.