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--- |
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language: |
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- vi |
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license: mit |
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size_categories: |
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- 100<n<1K |
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task_categories: |
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- text-generation |
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- text-classification |
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tags: |
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- legal |
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- vietnamese |
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- law |
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- vietnam |
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- corpus |
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- legislation |
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pretty_name: Vietnamese Legal Corpus |
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dataset_info: |
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splits: |
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- name: "2026" |
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num_examples: 318 |
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- name: "2023" |
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num_examples: 208 |
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- name: "2021" |
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num_examples: 110 |
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configs: |
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- config_name: default |
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data_files: |
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- split: "2026" |
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path: data/2026-* |
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- split: "2023" |
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path: data/2023-* |
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- split: "2021" |
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path: data/2021-* |
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default: true |
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--- |
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# Vietnamese Legal Corpus (UTS_VLC) |
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A comprehensive dataset of Vietnamese laws and legal codes, maintained by [Underthesea NLP](https://github.com/undertheseanlp). |
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## Dataset Description |
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This dataset contains Vietnamese legal documents including the Constitution, Codes (Bộ luật), and Laws (Luật) from 1945 to 2025. |
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### Splits |
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| Split | Documents | Description | |
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| 2021 | 110 | Original corpus with full text | |
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| 2023 | 208 | Expanded corpus with processed text | |
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| 2026 | 318 | Latest corpus with 2022-2025 laws | |
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### Document Types |
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- **Constitution (Hiến pháp)**: 1 document (2013 Constitution) |
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- **Codes (Bộ luật)**: 6 major codes |
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- Civil Code 2015 (Bộ luật Dân sự) |
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- Civil Procedure Code 2015 (Bộ luật Tố tụng Dân sự) |
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- Criminal Code 2015 (Bộ luật Hình sự) |
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- Criminal Procedure Code 2015 (Bộ luật Tố tụng Hình sự) |
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- Maritime Code 2015 (Bộ luật Hàng hải) |
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- Labor Code 2019 (Bộ luật Lao động) |
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- **Laws (Luật)**: 300+ laws covering various domains |
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### Recent Laws (2022-2025) |
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The 2026 split includes laws passed by the 15th National Assembly: |
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- **2022**: 8 laws (Inspection, Anti-Money Laundering, IP, Insurance, Cinema, etc.) |
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- **2023**: 12 laws (E-Transactions, Consumer Protection, Bidding, Telecoms, Housing, etc.) |
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- **2024**: 24 laws (Land, Credit Institutions, Roads, Data, Electricity, Social Insurance, etc.) |
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- **2025**: 50+ laws including landmark legislation: |
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- **AI Law** (Luật Trí tuệ nhân tạo) - First AI law in Vietnam |
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- **E-commerce Law** (Luật Thương mại điện tử) |
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- **Digital Transformation Law** (Luật Chuyển đổi số) |
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- **Personal Data Protection Law** (Luật Bảo vệ dữ liệu cá nhân) |
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## Features |
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| Feature | Type | Description | |
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|---------|------|-------------| |
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| id | string | Document identifier (slug) | |
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| filename | string | Source filename | |
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| title | string | Vietnamese title | |
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| type | string | Document type: "code", "law", or "constitution" | |
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| content | string | Full text content | |
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| content_length | int32 | Character count | |
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## Usage |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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# Load all splits |
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ds = load_dataset("undertheseanlp/UTS_VLC") |
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# Load specific split |
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ds_2026 = load_dataset("undertheseanlp/UTS_VLC", split="2026") |
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# Filter by type |
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codes = ds_2026.filter(lambda x: x["type"] == "code") |
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laws = ds_2026.filter(lambda x: x["type"] == "law") |
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# Search by title |
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land_law = ds_2026.filter(lambda x: "Đất đai" in x["title"]) |
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``` |
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## Statistics |
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| Metric | 2021 | 2023 | 2026 | |
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|--------|------|------|------| |
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| Documents | 110 | 208 | 318 | |
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| Total Characters | ~14M | ~21M | ~24M | |
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| Codes | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
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| Laws | 104 | 202 | 312 | |
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## Data Source |
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Documents were collected from [Thu Vien Phap Luat](https://thuvienphapluat.vn/), the official Vietnamese legal document database. |
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## References |
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- [Vietnam's System of Legal Documents](https://vietnamlawmagazine.vn/vietnams-system-of-legal-documents-5017.html) |
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- [National Assembly of Vietnam](https://quochoi.vn/) |
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## License |
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MIT License |
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## Citation |
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```bibtex |
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@dataset{uts_vlc, |
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title={Vietnamese Legal Corpus}, |
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author={Underthesea NLP}, |
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year={2026}, |
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publisher={Hugging Face}, |
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url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/undertheseanlp/UTS_VLC} |
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} |
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``` |
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## Maintainers |
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- [Underthesea NLP](https://github.com/undertheseanlp) |
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- Contact: undertheseanlp@gmail.com |
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