rcds/swiss_leading_decision_summarization

---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
annotations_creators:
- machine-generated
language:
- de
- fr
- it
language_creators:
- expert-generated
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: Leading Decision Summarization
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- summarization
---

# Dataset Card for Leading Decision Summarization

## 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

This dataset contains text and summary for swiss leading decisions.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

### 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** | 12K |
| French | **fr** | 5K |
| Italian | **it** | 835 |

## Dataset Structure

- decision_id: unique identifier for the decision
- header: a short header for the decision
- regeste: the summary of the leading decision
- text: the main text of the leading decision
- law_area: area of law of the decision
- law_sub_area: sub-area of law of the decision
- language: language of the decision
- year: year of the decision
- court: court of the decision
- chamber: chamber of the decision
- canton: canton of the decision
- region: region of the decision

### Data Fields
[More Information Needed]
### Data Instances
[More Information Needed]
### Data Fields
[More Information Needed]
### Data Splits
## 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?
### 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}
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [Joel Niklaus](https://niklaus.ai) for adding this dataset.

原始信息汇总

数据集概述

数据集名称

• 名称: Leading Decision Summarization

数据集摘要

• 摘要: 该数据集包含瑞士主要决策的文本和摘要。

语言信息

• 语言: 德语（de）、法语（fr）、意大利语（it）
• 文档数量:
  • 德语: 12K
  • 法语: 5K
  • 意大利语: 835

数据集结构

• 数据字段:
  • decision_id: 决策的唯一标识符
  • header: 决策的简短标题
  • regeste: 主要决策的摘要
  • text: 主要决策的文本
  • law_area: 决策的法律领域
  • law_sub_area: 决策的法律子领域
  • language: 决策的语言
  • year: 决策的年份
  • court: 决策的法院
  • chamber: 决策的法庭
  • canton: 决策的州
  • region: 决策的地区

数据集创建

• 源数据: 数据来源于瑞士联邦最高法院，原始数据为HTML格式。
• 注释: 数据集中的个人或敏感信息已根据法院的匿名化规则进行处理。

许可证信息

• 许可证: CC-BY-SA-4.0

引用信息

• 引用: 请引用ArXiv预印本2306.09237。