Demystifying Legalese: An Automated Approach for Summarizing and Analyzing Overlaps in Privacy Policies and Terms of Service

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13087v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:53:59 GMT
• Title: Demystifying Legalese: An Automated Approach for Summarizing and Analyzing Overlaps in Privacy Policies and Terms of Service
• Authors: Shikha Soneji, Mitchell Hoesing, Sujay Koujalgi, Jonathan Dodge,
• Abstract summary: Our work seeks to alleviate this issue by developing language models that provide automated, accessible summaries and scores for such documents. We compared transformer-based and conventional models during training on our dataset, and RoBERTa performed better overall with a remarkable 0.74 F1-score.
• Score: 0.6240153531166704
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The complexities of legalese in terms and policy documents can bind individuals to contracts they do not fully comprehend, potentially leading to uninformed data sharing. Our work seeks to alleviate this issue by developing language models that provide automated, accessible summaries and scores for such documents, aiming to enhance user understanding and facilitate informed decisions. We compared transformer-based and conventional models during training on our dataset, and RoBERTa performed better overall with a remarkable 0.74 F1-score. Leveraging our best-performing model, RoBERTa, we highlighted redundancies and potential guideline violations by identifying overlaps in GDPR-required documents, underscoring the necessity for stricter GDPR compliance.

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