Dataset Card for Swiss Leading Decisions

Dataset Summary

Swiss Leading Decisions is a multilingual, diachronic dataset of 21K Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSCS) cases. This dataset is part of a challenging text classification task. We also provide additional metadata as the publication year, the law area and the canton of origin per case, to promote robustness and fairness studies on the critical area of legal NLP.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Swiss Leading Decisions hepled in a text classification task

Languages

Switzerland has four official languages with three languages German, French and Italian being represenated. The decisions are written by the judges and clerks in the language of the proceedings.

Language	Subset	Number of Documents
German	de	14K
French	fr	6K
Italian	it	1K

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

decision_id: (str) a unique identifier of the for the document
language: (int64) one of (0,1,2)
chamber_id: (int64) id to identfy chamber
file_id: (int64) id to identify file
date: (int64)
topic: (string)
year: (float64)
language: (string)
facts: (string) text section of the full text
facts_num_tokens_bert: (int64)
facts_num_tokens_spacy: (int64)
considerations: (string) text section of the full text
considerations_num_tokens_bert: (int64)
considerations_num_tokens_spacy: (int64)
rulings: (string)  text section of the full text
rulings_num_tokens_bert: (int64)
rulings_num_tokens_spacy: (int64)
chamber (string):
court: (string)
canton: (string)
region: (string)
file_name: (string)
html_url: (string)
pdf_url: (string)
file_number: (string)

Data Instances

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Data Fields

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Data Splits

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The dataset was created by Stern (2023).

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

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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

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

@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}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @Stern5497 for adding this dataset.