Multi-LexSum: Real-World Summaries of Civil Rights Lawsuits at Multiple Granularities. (arXiv:2206.10883v1 [cs.CL])

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10883

With the advent of large language models, methods for abstractive
summarization have made great strides, creating potential for use in
applications to aid knowledge workers processing unwieldy document collections.
One such setting is the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse (CRLC)
(https://clearinghouse.net),which posts information about large-scale civil
rights lawsuits, serving lawyers, scholars, and the general public. Today,
summarization in the CRLC requires extensive training of lawyers and law
students who spend hours per case understanding multiple relevant documents in
order to produce …

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