# LegalSumm: A Comprehensive Legal Document Summarization Dataset
LegalSumm is a merged dataset combining three prominent legal document collections (GovReport, BillSum, and CaseSumm) to create a comprehensive resource for training and evaluating legal text summarisation models.
## Dataset Composition
**Total samples:** 69,992 document-summary pairs
**Sources:**
- GovReport: 19,466 U.S. government reports (27.8%)
- BillSum: 23,455 U.S. Congressional bills (33.5%)
- CaseSumm: 27,071 U.S. Supreme Court opinions (38.7%)
## Features
- **text**: Original legal document (full text)
- **summary**: Human-written summary of the document
## Preprocessing
Documents have been standardized to ensure consistent formatting across different legal document types.
All samples have been randomly shuffled and split into training (80%), validation (10%), and test (10%) sets.
