| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - de |
| tags: |
| - legal |
| - statutory-interpretation |
| - german-law |
| pretty_name: Interpretive Canons (decision-level) |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: decisions.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # Interpretive Canons — decision-level |
|
|
| Companion benchmark to the paper *Classifying Interpretive Canons at the |
| Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court*. This |
| is the **decision-level** release: one record per fully (exhaustively) annotated |
| decision, intended for end-to-end evaluation that runs the full pipeline over a |
| whole decision. Only the 15 exhaustively annotated decisions are included; the |
| selectively annotated decisions are not, because their unannotated sentences are |
| not negatives. The companion **instance-level** benchmark (eight subtask files |
| with splits) is at `felix453/interpretive-canons-instances`. |
|
|
| ## Record format (`decisions.jsonl`, one decision per line) |
|
|
| - `decision_name`: BVerfGE / file identifier. |
| - `plain_text`: the full text of the reasons (*Entscheidungsgründe*). |
| - `document_structure`: paragraph/sentence structure inherited from the L.L.Con |
| corpus (`ebene1`, `absatz`, `satz`, ...), with character offsets into |
| `plain_text`. |
| - `readings`: every annotated reading (Deutung) as a character span (`start`, |
| `end`, `satz_id`) with its criteria — `abstrakt`, `selbst_aufgestellt`, |
| `konkretes_gesetz` (list of provisions), `bestimmt`, |
| `vermutlich_keine_behauptung` — and the free-text reasonings. |
| - `arguments`: every annotated (reading, candidate) pair as a character span |
| with `deutung_id`, the `general_argument` gate (`present` + `reasoning`), and |
| the four canon labels `wortlaut`/`systematik`/`geschichte`/`zweck` (null when |
| the gate is negative). |
|
|
| ## Loading |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| ds = load_dataset("felix453/interpretive-canons-decisions", split="train") |
| print(ds[0]["decision_name"], len(ds[0]["readings"])) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Raw annotations (provenance) |
|
|
| The raw, pre-merge Label Studio export these data are built from is available at |
| [`felix453/interpretive-canons-raw-export`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/felix453/interpretive-canons-raw-export). |
| It retains two fields the postprocessing merge does not preserve: the per-reading |
| determinate-content judgment `bestimmt_moeglicheDeutung` (dropped by the merge) |
| and the un-flattened list of concrete provisions (the merge joins the entries |
| into one unsplittable string). Join by Label Studio region `id`. |
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