Saudi Arabic Laws

Open research resources for Saudi Arabic legal NLP, information retrieval, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and reliable language model evaluation.

Saudi Arabic Laws is a research initiative focused on developing structured, reusable resources for computational research on Saudi legal text.

Our work emphasizes evidence-grounded language models, legal information retrieval, dataset quality, and reproducible evaluation using material derived from publicly accessible official Saudi legal sources.

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Featured Dataset

Saudi Arabic Laws and Regulations Corpus

A structured, article-level Arabic legal corpus designed for retrieval, RAG, grounded generation, and legal LLM evaluation.

Explore the dataset:
Saudi Arabic Laws and Regulations Corpus

Archival release:
Zenodo — Version 1.0.0

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Research Focus

Our resources are designed to support research in areas including:

• Arabic Legal NLP
• Saudi legal information retrieval
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• lexical, dense, and hybrid retrieval
• evidence-grounded generation
• citation-aware retrieval
• hallucination evaluation
• faithfulness evaluation
• claim-level verification
• explainable AI for legal language systems

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Data Sources

The corpus integrates legal material collected from publicly accessible official Saudi government sources:

• Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers (BOE)
• Ministry of Justice (MOJ)

The released datasets preserve source-specific structure and metadata where appropriate.

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Research Team

• Alaa Almunyah
• Aseel Almehmadi
• Fatima Almaashi
• Hadeel Sirdar
• Shaden Alamri

The team develops and maintains the research resources published through this organization collectively.

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Citation

For academic use of the Saudi Arabic Laws and Regulations Corpus, please cite the archived Zenodo release:

Almunyah, A., Almehmadi, A., Almaashi, F., Sirdar, H., & Alamri, S. (2026).
Saudi Arabic Laws and Regulations Corpus (Version 1.0.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21265180

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Research Use

Resources published through this organization are intended for research and educational use in legal NLP and reliable AI.

They should not be interpreted as official legal publications, authoritative legal interpretations, or substitutes for professional legal advice. For legally consequential use, information should be verified against the relevant current official Saudi government source.