Multi-LexSum: Real-world Summaries of Civil Rights Lawsuits at Multiple Granularities
NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks
What it adds
Pairs long collections of civil-rights litigation documents with expert-written summaries at three lengths. A small human evaluation examines whether generated summaries actually help trained legal writers.
Read with this limitation
The collection favours plaintiff wins and federal cases with online dockets. The human study involved two writers and forty new cases; its results concern the tested 2022 system and do not establish present-day model performance or general productivity gains.
- Jurisdiction tags
- United States
- Language
- English
Follow the source
Selected statements located in the linked primary sources. These results have not been independently reproduced here.
Experts create and review summaries at long, short and one-sentence lengths.
Section 3.2; task lengths in Section 3.1 on PDF page 4In the forty-case study, a revised BART-based writing system received an average usefulness rating of 0.43 on a 0–3 scale.
Section 5, Human evaluation
Connected research
Cites
CUAD: An Expert-Annotated NLP Dataset for Legal Contract Review
References CUAD among legal information-extraction research.
Inspect the sourceRelated question
A Multi-Task Benchmark for Korean Legal Language Understanding and Judgement Prediction
Both provide legal summarisation resources, with different source documents and summary structures.
Entry status, source edition & rights
- Index entry
- Source-linked summary, prepared with agent assistance. Independent scholarly review is pending.
- Archive admission
- This bibliographic entry does not confer admission to the versioned archive.
- Edition inspected
- 10.52202/068431-0956
- Reading coverage
- NeurIPS proceedings PDF inspected for corpus construction, experimental setup, human study, limitations and CUAD reference (PDF pages 1–10 and 12). No dataset downloaded or model results reproduced. Printed corpus totals require reconciliation; see notes.
- Rights
- External source links only. No paper full text or underlying dataset is mirrored by the site; downstream reuse requires checking the source licence.
- Entry updated
- 2026-10-15
Source-linked summary · independent assessment pending.