Dataset Card for LEXTREME: A Multilingual Legal Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

Dataset Summary

The dataset consists of 11 diverse multilingual legal NLU datasets. 6 datasets have one single configuration and 5 datasets have two or three configurations. This leads to a total of 18 tasks (8 single-label text classification tasks, 5 multi-label text classification tasks and 5 token-classification tasks).

Use the dataset like this:

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("joelito/lextreme", "swiss_judgment_prediction")

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The dataset supports the tasks of text classification and token classification. In detail, we support the folliwing tasks and configurations:

task	task type	configurations	link
Brazilian Court Decisions	Judgment Prediction	(judgment, unanimity)	joelito/brazilian_court_decisions
Swiss Judgment Prediction	Judgment Prediction	default	joelito/swiss_judgment_prediction
German Argument Mining	Argument Mining	default	joelito/german_argument_mining
Greek Legal Code	Topic Classification	(volume, chapter, subject)	greek_legal_code
Online Terms of Service	Unfairness Classification	(unfairness level, clause topic)	online_terms_of_service
Covid 19 Emergency Event	Event Classification	default	covid19_emergency_event
MultiEURLEX	Topic Classification	(level 1, level 2, level 3)	multi_eurlex
LeNER BR	Named Entity Recognition	default	lener_br
LegalNERo	Named Entity Recognition	default	legalnero
Greek Legal NER	Named Entity Recognition	default	greek_legal_ner
MAPA	Named Entity Recognition	(coarse, fine)	mapa

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

Data Instances

The file format is jsonl and three data splits are present for each configuration (train, validation and test).

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

How can I contribute a dataset to lextreme? Please follow the following steps:

1. Make sure your dataset is available on the huggingface hub and has a train, validation and test split.
2. Create a pull request to the lextreme repository by adding the following to the lextreme.py file:
   • Create a dict _{YOUR_DATASET_NAME} (similar to _BRAZILIAN_COURT_DECISIONS_JUDGMENT) containing all the necessary information about your dataset (task_type, input_col, label_col, etc.)
   • Add your dataset to the BUILDER_CONFIGS list: LextremeConfig(name="{your_dataset_name}", **_{YOUR_DATASET_NAME})
   • Test that it works correctly by loading your subset with load_dataset("lextreme", "{your_dataset_name}") and inspecting a few examples.

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@misc{niklaus2023lextreme,
    title={LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain},
    author={Joel Niklaus and Veton Matoshi and Pooja Rani and Andrea Galassi and Matthias Stürmer and Ilias Chalkidis},
    year={2023},
    eprint={2301.13126},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @JoelNiklaus for adding this dataset.