README.md

---
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
task_ids:
- document-retrieval
config_names:
- corpus
tags:
- text-retrieval
dataset_info:
  - config_name: default
    features:
      - name: query-id
        dtype: string
      - name: corpus-id
        dtype: string
      - name: score
        dtype: float64
  - config_name: corpus
    features:
      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: title
        dtype: string
      - name: text
        dtype: string
  - config_name: queries
    features:
      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: text
        dtype: string
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: relevance.jsonl
  - config_name: corpus
    data_files:
      - split: corpus
        path: corpus.jsonl
  - config_name: queries
    data_files:
      - split: queries
        path: queries.jsonl
---

The dataset comprises descriptions of 197 Supreme Court of India statutes, designed to facilitate the retrieval of relevant prior statutes for given legal situations. It includes 50 queries, each outlining a specific scenario. We include this dataset in the benchmark because the documents are reasonably challenging, the queries are non-synthetic, and the labels are of high quality.

**Usage**
```
import datasets

# Download the dataset
queries = datasets.load_dataset("embedding-benchmark/AILAStatutes", "queries")
documents = datasets.load_dataset("embedding-benchmark/AILAStatutes", "corpus")
pair_labels = datasets.load_dataset("embedding-benchmark/AILAStatutes", "default")
```