Legal Text Summarization by Exploration of the Thematic structures and Argumentative Roles

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  • Atefeh Farzindar
  • Guy Lapalme
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In this paper we describe our method for the summarization of legal documents helping a legal expert determine the key ideas of a judgment. Our approach is based on the exploration of the document’s architecture and its thematic structures in order to build a table style summary for improving coherency and readability of the text. We present the components of a system, called LetSum, built with this approach, its implementation and some preliminary evaluation results.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004