Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Legal Extractive Summarization of U.S. Court Opinions

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2305.08428 v1 pith:BEGOZ4D5 submitted 2023-05-15 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords courtopinionsextractivegenerallegalmemsummodelspublic
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
read the original abstract

This paper tackles the task of legal extractive summarization using a dataset of 430K U.S. court opinions with key passages annotated. According to automated summary quality metrics, the reinforcement-learning-based MemSum model is best and even out-performs transformer-based models. In turn, expert human evaluation shows that MemSum summaries effectively capture the key points of lengthy court opinions. Motivated by these results, we open-source our models to the general public. This represents progress towards democratizing law and making U.S. court opinions more accessible to the general public.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. CaseSumm: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long-Context Summarization from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

    cs.CL 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    CaseSumm, a 25.6K-pair dataset of Supreme Court opinions and official syllabuses, shows automated metrics favor fine-tuned Mistral while human experts prefer GPT-4, and LLM judges do not align with humans better than ROUGE.

Pith tools