Automatic Legal Judgment Summarization Using Large Language Models: A Case Study for the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task

Santiago Chica


Abstract
This paper presents the proposal developed for the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task on Legal Summarization, which aims to generate abstractive summaries of Indian court judgments. The work describes the motivation, dataset analysis, related work, and proposed methodology based on Large Language Models (LLMs). We analyze the Indian Legal Summarization (InLSum) dataset, review four relevant articles in the summarization of legal texts, and describe the experimental setup involving GPT-4.1 to evaluate the effectiveness of different prompting strategies. The evaluation will follow the ROUGE and BLEU metrics, consistent with the competition protocol.
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2025.justnlp-main.18
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice (JUST-NLP 2025)
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December
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2025
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Mumbai, India
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Ashutosh Modi, Saptarshi Ghosh, Asif Ekbal, Pawan Goyal, Sarika Jain, Abhinav Joshi, Shivani Mishra, Debtanu Datta, Shounak Paul, Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Sandeep Kumar
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Santiago Chica. 2025. Automatic Legal Judgment Summarization Using Large Language Models: A Case Study for the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice (JUST-NLP 2025), pages 162–170, Mumbai, India. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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