RELexED: Retrieval-Enhanced Legal Summarization with Exemplar Diversity (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Current approaches to legal summarization struggle with content theme deviation and inconsistent writing styles due to the content of the source document. |
| Approach: | They propose a retrieval-augmented framework that utilizes exemplar summaries along with the source document to guide the model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models that do not utilize exemplars and those that rely on similarity-based exemplar selection. |
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