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| | license: eupl-1.1 |
| | tags: |
| | - legal |
| | pretty_name: European Court of Human Rights - decisions |
| | size_categories: |
| | - 1K<n<10K |
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| | # European Court of Human Rights Decisions Dataset |
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| | This dataset contains 9,820 decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) scraped from [HUDOC](https://hudoc.echr.coe.int), the official database of ECHR case law. |
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| | ## Dataset Description |
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| | - **Source**: HUDOC Database (https://hudoc.echr.coe.int) |
| | - **Size**: 9,820 court decisions |
| | - **Language**: Predominantly English |
| | - **Format**: CSV file with two columns: |
| | - `index`: Sequential counter identifier for each decision |
| | - `text`: Full text of the court decision |
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| | ## Data Usage |
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| | This dataset is valuable for: |
| | - Building legal vector databases for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) |
| | - Training Large Language Models focused on human rights law |
| | - Creating synthetic legal datasets |
| | - Legal text analysis and research |
| | - NLP tasks in international human rights domain |
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| | ## Legal Status |
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| | The dataset contains publicly available court decisions from HUDOC database. The European Court of Human Rights decisions are official documents and are available for public use. |
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| | ## Dataset Statistics |
| | - Number of decisions: 9,820 (until 31/12/2024) |
| | - Language distribution: Predominantly English |
