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metadata
task_categories:
  - summarization
language:
  - el
tags:
  - legal
  - eur-lex
  - greek
  - summarization
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

NOMOS_EUR_Lex_Sum is a Greek-language legal text summarization dataset derived from official documents of the EUR-Lex portal. The dataset focuses on extractive summarization of European Union legislative texts written in Greek and was developed in the context of the +NOMOS project

Dataset Structure

The dataset follows a hierarchical folder structure based on EUR-Lex thematic categories.

  • Top-level folders represent broad policy areas
  • Intermediate folders represent subtopics
  • Only the final-level folders (leaf folders) contain actual data files

Each leaf folder corresponds to one EU legal document and its summary.

Files inside a leaf folder

Only leaf folders contain the following files:

CELEX file (<celex_id>.txt)

  • Full legal text in Greek
  • Filename corresponds to the official CELEX identifier (e.g., 32013R1408.txt).

summary.txt

  • Summary of the legal document
  • Written in Greek

How to download the data

Use the provided download_script.py to pull the data to your local machine. This ensures the directory structure is preserved and only the necessary files are downloaded.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the huggingface_hub library installed:

pip install huggingface_hub

Usage

Run the following command in your terminal to download the files/ folder and the dataset_metadata.csv:

python download_script.py

The script will create a local directory named greek_eur_lex_sum (or your chosen path) containing eudocV6 data folder