Translating Legalese: Enhancing Public Understanding of Court Opinions with Legal Summarizers
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2024-03-12Type
- Conference Paper
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Abstract
Judicial opinions are written to be persuasive and could build public trust in court decisions, yet they can be difficult for non-experts to understand. We present a pipeline for using an AI assistant to generate simplified summaries of judicial opinions. Compared to existing expert-written summaries, these AI-generated simple summaries are more accessible to the public and more easily understood by non-experts. We show in a survey experiment that the AI summaries help respondents understand the key features of a ruling, and have higher perceived quality, especially for respondents with less formal education. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000666914Publication status
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CSLAW '24: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Science and LawPages / Article No.
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Association for Computing MachineryEvent
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00002 - ETH Zürich
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Conference lecture held on March 13, 2024.More
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