task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- el
tags:
- legal
- et-gr
- greek
- legislation
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
NOMOS_Greek_Legislation
NOMOS_Greek_Legislation is a Greek-language legal text corpus derived from the National Printing House (Ethniko Typografeio - ET.gr). The dataset focuses on Greek national legislation (Laws, Presidential Decrees, Ministerial Decisions) and was developed in the context of the +NOMOS project.
It provides full-text legal documents enriched with metadata and thematic classification tags, suitable for Legal NLP tasks such as Text Classification and Language Modeling.
File Organization
The dataset consists of a central metadata index and a folder containing the raw text files
Metadata Index
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| id | Unique internal ID |
| filename | The corresponding .txt filename in files/ |
| word_count | Word count of the plain text |
| title | Short title of the act |
| full_title | Official full title (includes Law Number/Date) |
| article_count | Number of articles detected |
| article_titles | List of article titles (separated by |) |
| fek | Government Gazette Issue (FEK) string |
| fek_search_url | Generated search URL for ET.gr |
| fek_url | Direct download link for the original PDF |
| topics | Thematic classification tags (separated by |) |
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_legal_data (or your chosen path) containing: dataset_metadata.csv: The central index for all legal documents. files/: A folder containing the raw .txt files corresponding to the metadata.