Research Challenges for Legal Document Summarization

Legal judgment documents are detailed and contains legal terms and codes. These characteristics of legal documents makes it complex to read and analyze, which makes processing legal documents a challenging task. This raises a need for generating automatic summaries. Several techniques have been used by researchers to summarize legal documents such as traditional methods, legal specific approaches and transformer models based approaches. This research focuses on role of summarization in legal domain and various methods for summary generation. We summarize Indian judgment documents with various state of art methods for comparative study. The analysis opened various research challenges.