A survey paper on legal summarization in the transformer era.
It reviews over 120 papers, analyzing datasets, methods, and evaluation metrics to identify trends and future directions in this domain.
Paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17830
Key Insights from this Paper 🔑:
→ Legal summarization research is regionally specific.
→ English language resources and Common Law systems are dominant in research.
→ Extractive, abstractive, and hybrid summarization strategies are used in the legal domain.
→ ROUGE is the most commonly used evaluation metric, despite its limitations for legal text.
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