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license: odc-by
task_categories:
  - summarization
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - legal
pretty_name: Common law court judgment summarization
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

CLSum

CLSum is a dataset for common law court judgment summarization

CLSum covers court judgments from four common law jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong SAR.

Paper [Arxiv PDF] [Published Version]

Github Page [Link]

License

CLSum is licensed under ODC-BY.

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When using the CLSum dataset in a product or service, or including data in a redistribution, please cite the following paper:

@article{liu2024low,
  title={Low-resource court judgment summarization for common law systems},
  author={Liu, Shuaiqi and Cao, Jiannong and Li, Yicong and Yang, Ruosong and Wen, Zhiyuan},
  journal={Information Processing \& Management},
  volume={61},
  number={5},
  pages={103796},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

FAQ

Q1: How to use this dataset?

A1: You can find four subsets named CLSum-UK, CLSum-CA, CLSum-AUS, and CLSumHK from four common law jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong SAR. Each subset has train, validation, and test sets. "src.txt" and "tgt.txt" files contain judgement doucments and corresponding target summaries.

Q2: Does each line of src.txt​ and tgt.txt​ files contain the source documents and the target summary, respectively?

A2: Yes