552ef803bef9368c29e53c167de34b55-Supplemental-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.pdf

For what purpose was the dataset created?Was therea specific task in mind? Was there aspecific gap that needed to be filled? Please provide a description.The Multi-LexSum dataset was curated to facilitate the development of automaticsummarization methods for civil rights lawsuits.Recent advances in document summarization have led to impressive results in generating ashort description for passages typically in hundreds of words. However, the source inputs forsummarizing civil right lawsuits are considerably longer: they can contain up to 70k words onaverage.