Beyond Borders: Investigating Cross-Jurisdiction Transfer in Legal Case Summarization (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | a study explores the cross-jurisdictional generalizability of legal case summarization models . fine-tuning on non-target datasets outperforms unsupervised methods, but success depends on similarity between source and target jurisdictions. |
| Approach: | They explore how to effectively summarize legal cases of a target jurisdiction where reference summaries are not available. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be generalized across jurisdictions and improve transfer performance. |
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