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RulingBR: A Summarization Dataset for Legal Texts

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Text summarization consists in generating a shorter version of an input document, which captures its main ideas. Despite the recent developments in this area, most of the existing techniques have been tested mostly in English and Chinese, due in part to the low availability of datasets in other languages. In addition, experiments have been run mostly on collections of news articles, which could lead to some bias in the research. In this paper, we address both these limitations by creating a dataset for the summarization of legal texts in Portuguese. The dataset, called RulingBR, contains about 10K rulings from the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. We describe how the dataset was assembled and we also report on the results of standard summarization methods which may serve as a baseline for future works.

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    http://www.stf.jus.br/.

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  1. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Diego de Vargas Feijó & Viviane Pereira Moreira

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Aline Villavicencio

  2. Instituto de Informática - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Viviane Moreira

  3. INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alberto Abad

  4. UFSCAR, Sao Carlos, Brazil

    Helena Caseli

  5. Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain

    Pablo Gamallo

  6. Université de Toulon, Parc Scientifique Technologique Luminy, Marseille, France

    Carlos Ramisch

  7. Centro de Informática e Sistemas, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

  8. Federal University of Technology, Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil

    Gustavo Henrique Paetzold

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de Vargas Feijó, D., Moreira, V.P. (2018). RulingBR: A Summarization Dataset for Legal Texts. In: Villavicencio, A., et al. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99722-3_26

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