Controlled Attribute-Specific Summarization of Interrogative Dialogues

Abstract:Effective summarization of interrogative dialogues is a critical task in forensic and investigative settings, requiring high factual accuracy, coherence, and attribute-specific relevance. In this work, we introduce CASPER, a novel Chain-of-Thought Attribute-Specific Prompting for Evaluative Summarization framework that leverages structured prompting and iterative refinement to generate high-quality summaries of interrogator-witness interactions. We construct MINDSum, a dataset extending the MIND corpus, comprising 6,000 utterance pairs annotated with event details, factual statements, character descriptions, and fillers. CASPER employs RoleEval, a hierarchical evaluation mechanism where multiple roles (officer, inspector, senior inspector) iteratively assess summaries based on predefined criteria. By integrating entity extraction and structured feedback loops, CASPER significantly improves factual consistency and contextual completeness compared to existing baselines. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework outperforms standard summarization models on both lexical (ROUGE) and semantic (BERTScore) metrics, while human evaluation confirms its alignment with expert reasoning. Our findings underscore the potential of controlled summarization in high-stakes domains, paving the way for AI-driven forensic intelligence.

Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.28004 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2609.28004v1 [cs.CL] for this version)

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