@inproceedings{chheda-etal-2025-extract,
    title = "Extract-Explain-Abstract: A Rhetorical Role-Driven Domain-Specific Summarisation Framework for {I}ndian Legal Documents",
    author = "Chheda, Veer  and
      Ghaisas, Aaditya Uday  and
      Sankhe, Avantika  and
      Shekokar, Dr. Narendra",
    editor = "Aletras, Nikolaos  and
      Chalkidis, Ilias  and
      Barrett, Leslie  and
      Goanț{\u{a}}, C{\u{a}}t{\u{a}}lina  and
      Preoțiuc-Pietro, Daniel  and
      Spanakis, Gerasimos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2025",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.nllp-1.32/",
    pages = "439--455",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-338-8",
    abstract = "Legal documents are characterized by theirlength, intricacy, and dense use of jargon, making efficacious summarisation both paramountand challenging. Existing zero-shot methodologies in small language models struggle tosimplify this jargon and are prone to punts andhallucinations with longer prompts. This paperintroduces the Rhetorical Role-based Extract-Explain-Abstract (EEA) Framework, a novelthree-stage methodology for summarisation ofIndian legal documents in low-resource settings. The approach begins by segmenting legaltexts using rhetorical roles, such as facts, issues and arguments, through a domain-specificphrase corpus and extraction based on TF-IDF.In the explanation stage, the segmented output is enriched with logical connections to ensure coherence and legal fidelity. The final abstraction phase condenses these interlinked segments into cogent, high-level summaries thatpreserve critical legal reasoning. Experimentson Indian legal datasets show that the EEAframework typically outperforms in ROUGE,BERTScore, Flesch Reading Ease, Age of Acquisition, SummaC and human evaluations. Wealso employ InLegalBERTScore as a metric tocapture domain specific semantics of Indianlegal documents."
}