The Use of Thematic structure and Concept Identification for Legal Text Summarization

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  • Atefeh Farzindar
  • Guy Lapalme
چکیده

LetSum is a summarization system developed for producing short summaries for legal decisions. LetSum is built with an approach based on the exploration of the document structure and thematic segmentation in order to produce a table-style summary for improving coherency and readability of the text. We present the components of the system and its implementation.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004