Indian Legal Text Summarization: A Text Normalisation-based Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.06238v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:16:50 GMT
• Title: Indian Legal Text Summarization: A Text Normalisation-based Approach
• Authors: Satyajit Ghosh, Mousumi Dutta, Tanaya Das
• Abstract summary: There are more than 4 crore cases outstanding in the Indian court system. Many state-theart models for text summarization have emerged as machine learning has progressed. domain-independent models don't do well with legal texts. Authors have proposed a methodology for normalising legal texts in the Indian context.
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• Abstract: In the Indian court system, pending cases have long been a problem. There are more than 4 crore cases outstanding. Manually summarising hundreds of documents is a time-consuming and tedious task for legal stakeholders. Many state-of-the-art models for text summarization have emerged as machine learning has progressed. Domain-independent models don't do well with legal texts, and fine-tuning those models for the Indian Legal System is problematic due to a lack of publicly available datasets. To improve the performance of domain-independent models, the authors have proposed a methodology for normalising legal texts in the Indian context. The authors experimented with two state-of-the-art domain-independent models for legal text summarization, namely BART and PEGASUS. BART and PEGASUS are put through their paces in terms of extractive and abstractive summarization to understand the effectiveness of the text normalisation approach. Summarised texts are evaluated by domain experts on multiple parameters and using ROUGE metrics. It shows the proposed text normalisation approach is effective in legal texts with domain-independent models.

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