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