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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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language: |
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- en |
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tags: |
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- legal |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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This is the **ECHR dataset**, a collection of 11.5K court cases extracted from the public database |
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of the European Court of Human Rights and further annotated by human experts. The dataset was |
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published along with [this paper](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1424/) (pleae cite it |
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accordingly!) and can be donwloaded in its original form from [this website](https://archive.org/details/ECHR-ACL2019). |
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Each instance in this dataset is a court case. Each court case is annotated with the following properties (the columns of the dataframe): |
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* `partition`: a label indicating dataset partition this court case belongs to ("train", "dev", or "test") |
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* `itemid`: a code which uniquely identifies this court case |
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* `languageisocode`: an [ISO code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes) describing the language in which the case is reported |
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* `respondent`: the ISO code of the party being sued or tried (respondents are nation states) |
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* `branch`: the branch of the Court dealing with the case, indicating at which stage of the trial a judgement was made (it can be one out of "ADMISSIBILITY", "CHAMBER", "GRANDCHAMBER", "COMMITTEE") |
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* `date`: the date of the judgement |
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* `docname`: the title of the court case (for example, "ERIKSON v. ITALY") |
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* `importance`: an "importance score" from 1 (key case) to 4 (unimportant), denoting a case's contribution in the development of case-law |
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* `conclusion`: a short summary of the case conclusion (for example, "Inadmissible" or "Violation of Art. 6-1; No violation of Art. 10" |
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* `judges`: the name of the judges |
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* `text`: the facts brought to the attention of the Court |
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* `binary_judgement`: a binary label indicating whether an article or protocol was (1) or wasn't (0) violated |
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