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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)
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- **Size**: 9,820 court decisions
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- **Language**: Predominantly English
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- **Format**: CSV file with two columns:
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- `index`: Sequential counter identifier for each decision
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- `text`: Full text of the court decision
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## Data Usage
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This dataset is valuable for:
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- Building legal vector databases for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
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- Training Large Language Models focused on human rights law
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- Creating synthetic legal datasets
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- Legal text analysis and research
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- 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
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- Number of decisions: 9,820 (until 31/12/2024)
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- Language distribution: Predominantly English
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