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Dataset Card for MultiLegalPile: A Large-Scale Multilingual Corpus for the Legal Domain
Dataset Summary
The Multi_Legal_Pile is a large-scale multilingual legal dataset suited for pretraining language models. It spans over 24 languages and five legal text types. This version only contains data permissively licensed for commercial use.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
The dataset supports the tasks of fill-mask.
Languages
The following languages are supported: bg, cs, da, de, el, en, es, et, fi, fr, ga, hr, hu, it, lt, lv, mt, nl, pl, pt, ro, sk, sl, sv
Dataset Structure
It is structured in the following format: type -> language -> jurisdiction.jsonl.xz
type is one of the following:
- caselaw
- contracts
- legislation
- other
- legal_mc4
legal_mc4
is a subset of the other type but is listed separately so it can be easily excluded since it is less
permissively licensed than the other types.
Use the dataset like this:
from datasets import load_dataset
config = 'en_contracts' # {language}_{type}
dataset = load_dataset('joelito/Multi_Legal_Pile', config, split='train', streaming=True)
'config' is a combination of language and text_type, e.g. 'en_contracts' or 'de_caselaw'. To load all the languages or all the text_types, use 'all' instead of the language or text_type (e.g., ' all_legislation').
Data Instances
The file format is jsonl.xz and there is one split available ("train").
The complete dataset (689GB) consists of four large subsets:
- Native Multi Legal Pile (112GB)
- Eurlex Resources (179GB)
- Legal MC4 (106GB)
- Pile of Law (292GB)
Native Multilingual Legal Pile data
Language | Text Type | Jurisdiction | Source | Size (MB) | Words | Documents | Words/Document | URL | License | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | bg | legislation | Bulgaria | MARCELL | 8015 | 308946116 | 82777 | 3732 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-bulgarian-legislative-subcorpus-v2/946267fe8d8711eb9c1a00155d026706d2c9267e5cdf4d75b5f02168f01906c6/ | CC0-1.0 |
1 | cs | caselaw | Czechia | CzCDC Constitutional Court | 11151 | 574336489 | 296652 | 1936 | https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11372/LRT-3052 | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
2 | cs | caselaw | Czechia | CzCDC Supreme Administrative Court | 11151 | 574336489 | 296652 | 1936 | https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11372/LRT-3052 | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
3 | cs | caselaw | Czechia | CzCDC Supreme Court | 11151 | 574336489 | 296652 | 1936 | https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11372/LRT-3052 | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
4 | da | caselaw | Denmark | DDSC | 3469 | 210730560 | 89702 | 2349 | https://huggingface.co/DDSC | CC BY 4.0 and other, depending on the dataset |
5 | da | legislation | Denmark | DDSC | 10736 | 653153146 | 265868 | 2456 | https://huggingface.co/DDSC | CC BY 4.0 and other, depending on the dataset |
6 | de | caselaw | Germany | openlegaldata | 31527 | 1785439383 | 596800 | 2991 | https://de.openlegaldata.io/ | ODbL-1.0 |
7 | de | caselaw | Switzerland | entscheidsuche | 31527 | 1785439383 | 596800 | 2991 | https://entscheidsuche.ch/ | See description |
8 | de | legislation | Germany | openlegaldata | 8934 | 512840663 | 276034 | 1857 | https://de.openlegaldata.io/ | ODbL-1.0 |
9 | de | legislation | Switzerland | lexfind | 8934 | 512840663 | 276034 | 1857 | https://www.lexfind.ch/fe/de/search | No information provided |
10 | fr | caselaw | Switzerland | entscheidsuche | 18313 | 1170335690 | 435569 | 2686 | https://entscheidsuche.ch/ | See description |
11 | fr | caselaw | Belgium | jurportal | 18313 | 1170335690 | 435569 | 2686 | https://juportal.be/home/welkom | See description |
12 | fr | caselaw | France | CASS | 18313 | 1170335690 | 435569 | 2686 | https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/CASS/ | Open Licence 2.0 |
13 | fr | caselaw | Luxembourg | judoc | 18313 | 1170335690 | 435569 | 2686 | https://justice.public.lu/fr.html | See description |
14 | it | caselaw | Switzerland | entscheidsuche | 6483 | 406520336 | 156630 | 2595 | https://entscheidsuche.ch/ | See description |
15 | en | legislation | Switzerland | lexfind | 36587 | 2537696894 | 657805 | 3857 | https://www.lexfind.ch/fe/de/search | No information provided |
16 | en | legislation | UK | uk-lex | 36587 | 2537696894 | 657805 | 3857 | https://zenodo.org/record/6355465 | CC BY 4.0 |
17 | fr | legislation | Switzerland | lexfind | 9297 | 600170792 | 243313 | 2466 | https://www.lexfind.ch/fe/fr/search | No information provided |
18 | fr | legislation | Belgium | ejustice | 9297 | 600170792 | 243313 | 2466 | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/welcome.pl | No information provided |
19 | it | legislation | Switzerland | lexfind | 8332 | 542579039 | 227968 | 2380 | https://www.lexfind.ch/fe/it/search | No information provided |
20 | nl | legislation | Belgium | ejustice | 8484 | 550788527 | 232204 | 2372 | https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/welcome.pl | No information provided |
21 | hu | legislation | Hungary | MARCELL | 5744 | 264572303 | 86862 | 3045 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-hungarian-legislative-subcorpus-v2/a87295ec8d6511eb9c1a00155d0267065f7e56dc7db34ce5aaae0b48a329daaa/ | CC0-1.0 |
22 | pl | legislation | Poland | MARCELL | 5459 | 299334705 | 89264 | 3353 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-polish-legislative-subcorpus-v2/dd14fa1c8d6811eb9c1a00155d026706c4718ddc9c6e4a92a88923816ca8b219/ | CC0-1.0 |
23 | pt | caselaw | Brazil | RulingBR | 196919 | 12611760973 | 17251236 | 731 | https://github.com/diego-feijo/rulingbr | No information provided |
24 | pt | caselaw | Brazil | CRETA | 196919 | 12611760973 | 17251236 | 731 | https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/eliasjacob/brcad5?resource=download&select=language_modeling_texts.parquet | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
25 | pt | caselaw | Brazil | CJPG | 196919 | 12611760973 | 17251236 | 731 | https://esaj.tjsp.jus.br/cjsg/consultaCompleta.do?f=1 | No information provided |
26 | ro | legislation | Romania | MARCELL | 10464 | 559092153 | 215694 | 2592 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-romanian-legislative-subcorpus-v2/2da548428b9d11eb9c1a00155d026706ce94a6b59ffc4b0e9fb5cd9cebe6889e/ | CC0-1.0 |
27 | sk | legislation | Slovakia | MARCELL | 5208 | 280182047 | 76760 | 3650 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-slovak-legislative-subcorpus-v2/6bdee1d68c8311eb9c1a00155d0267063398d3f1a3af40e1b728468dcbd6efdd/ | CC0-1.0 |
28 | sl | legislation | Slovenia | MARCELL | 6057 | 365513763 | 88651 | 4123 | https://elrc-share.eu/repository/browse/marcell-slovenian-legislative-subcorpus-v2/e2a779868d4611eb9c1a00155d026706983c845a30d741b78e051faf91828b0d/ | CC-BY-4.0 |
total | all | all | all | 1297609 | xxx | 81214262514 | 57305071 | 1417 |
Eurlex Resources
See Eurlex Resources for more information.
Legal-MC4
See Legal-MC4 for more information.
Pile-of-Law
See Pile-of-Law for more information.
Language | Type | Jurisdiction | Source | Size (MB) | Tokens | Documents | Tokens/Document | Part of Multi_Legal_Pile |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
en | all | all | all | 503712 | 50547777921 | 9872444 | 5120 | yes |
en | caselaw | EU | echr | 298 | 28374996 | 8480 | 3346 | yes |
en | caselaw | Canada | canadian_decisions | 486 | 45438083 | 11343 | 4005 | yes |
en | caselaw | US | dol_ecab | 942 | 99113541 | 28211 | 3513 | no |
en | caselaw | US | scotus_oral_arguments | 1092 | 108228951 | 7996 | 13535 | no |
en | caselaw | US | tax_rulings | 1704 | 166915887 | 54064 | 3087 | no |
en | caselaw | US | nlrb_decisions | 2652 | 294471818 | 32080 | 9179 | no |
en | caselaw | US | scotus_filings | 4018 | 593870413 | 63775 | 9311 | yes |
en | caselaw | US | bva_opinions | 35238 | 4084140080 | 839523 | 4864 | no |
en | caselaw | US | courtlistener_docket_entry_documents | 139006 | 12713614864 | 1983436 | 6409 | yes |
en | caselaw | US | courtlistener_opinions | 158110 | 15899704961 | 4518445 | 3518 | yes |
en | contracts | -- | tos | 4 | 391890 | 50 | 7837 | no |
en | contracts | US | cfpb_creditcard_contracts | 188 | 25984824 | 2638 | 9850 | yes |
en | contracts | US | edgar | 28698 | 2936402810 | 987926 | 2972 | yes |
en | contracts | US | atticus_contracts | 78300 | 7997013703 | 650833 | 12287 | yes |
en | legislation | US | fre | 2 | 173325 | 68 | 2548 | no |
en | legislation | US | frcp | 4 | 427614 | 92 | 4647 | no |
en | legislation | US | eoir | 62 | 6109737 | 2229 | 2741 | no |
en | legislation | -- | constitutions | 66 | 5984865 | 187 | 32004 | yes |
en | legislation | US | federal_register | 424 | 39854787 | 5414 | 7361 | yes |
en | legislation | US | uscode | 716 | 78466325 | 58 | 1352867 | yes |
en | legislation | EU | euro_parl | 808 | 71344326 | 9672 | 7376 | no |
en | legislation | US | cfr | 1788 | 160849007 | 243 | 661930 | yes |
en | legislation | US | us_bills | 3394 | 320723838 | 112483 | 2851 | yes |
en | legislation | EU | eurlex | 3504 | 401324829 | 142036 | 2825 | no |
en | legislation | US | state_codes | 18066 | 1858333235 | 217 | 8563747 | yes |
en | other | -- | bar_exam_outlines | 4 | 346924 | 59 | 5880 | no |
en | other | US | ftc_advisory_opinions | 4 | 509025 | 145 | 3510 | no |
en | other | US | olc_memos | 98 | 12764635 | 1384 | 9223 | yes |
en | other | -- | cc_casebooks | 258 | 24857378 | 73 | 340512 | no |
en | other | -- | un_debates | 360 | 31152497 | 8481 | 3673 | no |
en | other | -- | r_legaladvice | 798 | 72605386 | 146671 | 495 | no |
en | other | US | founding_docs | 1118 | 100390231 | 183664 | 546 | no |
en | other | US | oig | 5056 | 566782244 | 38954 | 14550 | yes |
en | other | US | congressional_hearings | 16448 | 1801110892 | 31514 | 57152 | no |
Data Fields
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Data Splits
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Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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Annotations
Annotation process
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Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
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Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
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Licensing Information
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Citation Information
@misc{niklaus2023multilegalpile,
title={MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus},
author={Joel Niklaus and Veton Matoshi and Matthias Stürmer and Ilias Chalkidis and Daniel E. Ho},
year={2023},
eprint={2306.02069},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
Contributions
Thanks to @JoelNiklaus for adding this dataset.
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