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Article Summaries
"Article Summaries" are 200-300 word article overviews that are pre-generated and date-stamped. The summaries detail the central thesis, and identify the key issues, methods, and findings of the article.
"Article Summaries" is available in: HeinOnline
Enter a query to bring up search results.
- Article Summaries are available for articles from the Law Journal Library.
Search result with the article summary displayed by default.
- Click "Read More" to see the full article summary.
Example of a full article summary including the date the summary was pre-generated.
From the document viewer, the article summary is available from the tool menu.
- The article summary is also appended to downloaded PDFs.
More information on Article Summaries
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Under the Hood
What powers Hein's AI tools?
HeinOnline’s Article Summary feature is powered by a proprietary, in-house artificial intelligence system. The AI infrastructure is developed and operated entirely by HeinOnline’s technical team and is trained only on HeinOnline’s internal datasets. The company’s documentation states that all summary generation occurs within their private environment—there is no integration with external generative AI platforms, cloud APIs, or public LLMs. HeinOnline has not publicly disclosed the specific names or architectures (e.g., transformer models, custom LLMs) of its AI systems. The focus is on high data security, model transparency, and control, rather than leveraging outside AI frameworks or popular commercial models.
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