Legal Summarisation through LLMs: The PRODIGIT Project

The law is typically a natural-language-based domain, and natural-language texts are pervasive in the law. First, natural language is the medium that legislation (including administrative regulations of all kinds) uses to express legal prescriptions, which humans (both experts and laypeople) are assumed to understand and comply with. Legislative and regulatory bodies have produced complex and evolving networks of natural language texts, which have complex structures and interconnections and use diverse terminologies to express technical and non-technical content. Second, natural language is used in judicial proceedings and opinions. In a proceeding, the parties to a legal case rely on natural language to express their arguments, motions, and claims, as do witnesses in their testimonies.