Datasets:

rcds
/

swiss_legislation

	---
	license: cc-by-sa-4.0
	task_categories:
	- text-classification
	- translation
	language:
	- de
	- fr
	- it
	pretty_name: Swiss Legislation
	size_categories:
	- 100K<n<1M
	---

	# Dataset Card for Swiss Legislation

	## Table of Contents
	- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
	- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
	- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
	- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
	- [Languages](#languages)
	- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
	- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
	- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
	- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
	- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
	- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
	- [Source Data](#source-data)
	- [Annotations](#annotations)
	- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
	- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
	- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
	- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
	- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
	- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
	- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
	- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
	- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
	- [Contributions](#contributions)

	## Dataset Description

	- Homepage:
	- Repository:
	- Paper:
	- Leaderboard:
	- Point of Contact:

	### Dataset Summary

	Swiss Legislation is a multilingual, diachronic dataset of 36K Swiss laws. This dataset is part of a challenging Information Retreival task.
	### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

	### Languages

	The total number of texts in the dataset is 35,698. The dataset is saved in _lexfind_v2.jsonl_ format.
	Switzerland has four official languages German, French, Italian and Romanch with some additional English laws being represenated. Laws are written by legal experts.
	36K & 18K & 11K & 6K & 534 & 207
	\| Language \| Subset \| Number of Documents \|
	\|------------\|------------\|----------------------\|
	\| German \| de \| 18K \|
	\| French \| fr \| 11K \|
	\| Italian \| it \| 6K \|
	\| Romanch \| rm \| 534 \|
	\| English \| en \| 207 \|

	## Dataset Structure

	### Data Fields

	Each entry in the dataset is a dictionary with the following keys:
	- `canton`: the canton of origin of the legislation
	- example: "ag"
	- `language`: the language of the legislation
	- example: "de"
	- `uuid`: a unique identifier for the legislation
	- example: "ec312f57-05fe-4552-ba50-8c9c269e0f3b"
	- `title`: the title of the legislation
	- example: "Gesetz über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau"
	- `short`: a short description of the legislation
	- example: "Kantonales Geoinformationsgesetz"
	- `abbreviation`: an abbreviation for the legislation
	- example: "KGeoIG"
	- `sr_number`: a reference number for the legislation
	- example: "740.100"
	- `is_active`: whether the legislation is currently in force
	- example: true
	- `version_active_since`: the date since when the legislation's current version is active
	- example: "2021-09-01"
	- `family_active_since`: the date since when the legislation's current version's family is active
	- example: "2011-05-24"
	- `version_inactive_since`: the date since when the legislation's current version is inactive
	- example: null
	- `version_found_at`: the date the legislation's current version was found
	- example: "2021-09-01"
	- `pdf_url`: a link to the legislation's pdf
	- example: "https://www.lexfind.ch/tol/1557/de"
	- `html_url`: a link to the legislation's html
	- example: "https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/740.100")_
	- `pdf_content`: the legislation's pdf content
	- example: "740.100 - Gesetz über..."
	- `html_content`: the legislation's html content
	- example: ""

	### Data Instances
	[More Information Needed]
	### Data Fields
	[More Information Needed]
	### Data Splits

	1. 'ch': Switzerland (Federal) - 15840
	2. 'fr': Fribourg - 1633
	3. 'be': Bern - 1344
	4. 'vs': Valais - 1328
	5. 'gr': Graubünden - 1205
	6. 'ne': Neuchâtel - 1115
	7. 'zh': Zurich - 974
	8. 'bs': Basel-Stadt - 899
	9. 'bl': Basel-Landschaft - 863
	10. 'vd': Vaud - 870
	11. 'ge': Geneva - 837
	12. 'sg': St. Gallen - 764
	13. 'ju': Jura - 804
	14. 'zg': Zug - 632
	15. 'ti': Ticino - 627
	16. 'lu': Lucerne - 584
	17. 'so': Solothurn - 547
	18. 'ow': Obwalden - 513
	19. 'ik': Interkantonal - 510
	20. 'sh': Schaffhausen - 469
	21. 'gl': Glarus - 467
	22. 'tg': Thurgau - 453
	23. 'sz': Schwyz - 423
	24. 'ai': Appenzell Innerrhoden - 416
	25. 'ag': Aargau - 483
	26. 'ar': Appenzell Ausserrhoden - 330
	27. 'nw': Nidwalden - 401
	28. 'ur': Uri - 367
	29.
	## Dataset Creation
	### Curation Rationale
	### Source Data
	#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

	The original data are published from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (https://www.bger.ch) in unprocessed formats (HTML). The documents were downloaded from the Entscheidsuche portal (https://entscheidsuche.ch) in HTML.

	#### Who are the source language producers?

	The decisions are written by the judges and clerks in the language of the proceedings.

	### Annotations
	#### Annotation process

	#### Who are the annotators?

	Metadata is published by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (https://www.bger.ch).

	### Personal and Sensitive Information

	The dataset contains publicly available court decisions from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Personal or sensitive information has been anonymized by the court before publication according to the following guidelines: https://www.bger.ch/home/juridiction/anonymisierungsregeln.html.

	## Considerations for Using the Data
	### Social Impact of Dataset
	[More Information Needed]
	### Discussion of Biases
	[More Information Needed]
	### Other Known Limitations
	[More Information Needed]
	## Additional Information
	### Dataset Curators
	[More Information Needed]
	### Licensing Information

	We release the data under CC-BY-4.0 which complies with the court licensing (https://www.bger.ch/files/live/sites/bger/files/pdf/de/urteilsveroeffentlichung_d.pdf)
	© Swiss Federal Supreme Court, 2002-2022

	The copyright for the editorial content of this website and the consolidated texts, which is owned by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This means that you can re-use the content provided you acknowledge the source and indicate any changes you have made.
	Source: https://www.bger.ch/files/live/sites/bger/files/pdf/de/urteilsveroeffentlichung_d.pdf

	### Citation Information

	Please cite our [ArXiv-Preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09237)
	```
	@misc{rasiah2023scale,
	title={SCALE: Scaling up the Complexity for Advanced Language Model Evaluation},
	author={Vishvaksenan Rasiah and Ronja Stern and Veton Matoshi and Matthias Stürmer and Ilias Chalkidis and Daniel E. Ho and Joel Niklaus},
	year={2023},
	eprint={2306.09237},
	archivePrefix={arXiv},
	primaryClass={cs.CL}
	}
	```