Summarization of Dutch Legal Cases (Rechtspraak)

Master thesis by Chloe Crombach

Installation

Environment

Create a new environment with conda:

conda create -n LegNLSum
conda activate LegNLSum

Requirements

Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Data

Get the Rechtspraak cases zip file here. Then run the unzip file to acquire folders for each year in a data folder.

python utils/unzip.py

Run the code

Available summarization methods

The summarization methods implemented are numbered and ordered in extractive and abstractive methods.

Extractive Methods

Abstractive Methods