chhatramani/nepali-supremecourt-judgement-text-corpus-v1

Nepali Supreme Court Judgement Text Corpus v1

This dataset contains a curated collection of Nepali Supreme Court judgements, designed to support legal NLP research in low-resource contexts. It provides structured access to judicial decisions, enabling tasks such as legal text classification, question answering, summarization, and fine-tuning large language models for Nepali legal language.

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📂 Dataset Details

• Name: Nepali Supreme Court Judgement Text Corpus v1
• Source: Official Supreme Court decisions (Nepal)
• Language: Nepali
• Format: JSON

Fields

• id — Unique identifier for each judgement text chunk
• title — Case title or decision heading
• decision_date — Date of the judgement
• text — Full judgement text (segmented into chunks for usability)

Example Entry

{
  "id": "9294_chunk_0",
  "title": "निर्णय नं. १०२४२ - मानव बेचबिखन तथा ओसारपसार",
  "decision_date": "२०७५/११/२६",
  "text": "प्रस्तुत मुद्दामा गोपनीयताको..."
}

🚀 Usage

You can load the dataset directly from Hugging Face:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("chhatramani/nepali-supremecourt-judgement-text-corpus-v1")
print(dataset["train"][0])

📌 Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, projects, or publications, please cite it to acknowledge the work:

Chhatramani, Nepali Supreme Court Judgement Text Corpus v1* — Hugging Face — Hugging Face

BibTeX

@dataset{chhatramani_nepali_supremecourt_judgement_v1,
  author    = {Chhatramani},
  title     = {Nepali Supreme Court Judgement Text Corpus v1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/chhatramani/nepali-supremecourt-judgement-text-corpus-v1}
}