README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - de
  - fr
  - it
task_categories:
  - summarization
dataset_info:
- config_name: de
  features:
  - name: decision_id
    dtype: string
  - name: decision
    dtype: string
  - name: headnote
    dtype: string
  - name: law_area
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: int64
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
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    num_examples: 13550
  - name: validation
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    num_examples: 137
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 5089582.021472393
    num_examples: 207
  download_size: 106800873
  dataset_size: 210197024.2101847
- config_name: fr
  features:
  - name: decision_id
    dtype: string
  - name: decision
    dtype: string
  - name: headnote
    dtype: string
  - name: law_area
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: int64
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
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    num_examples: 5456
  - name: validation
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    num_examples: 55
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 2630846.745398773
    num_examples: 107
  download_size: 42509320
  dataset_size: 85214708.18342
- config_name: it
  features:
  - name: decision_id
    dtype: string
  - name: decision
    dtype: string
  - name: headnote
    dtype: string
  - name: law_area
    dtype: string
  - name: year
    dtype: int64
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 13979223.733266482
    num_examples: 939
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 197595.30666666667
    num_examples: 8
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 295048.23312883434
    num_examples: 12
  download_size: 7426990
  dataset_size: 14471867.273061983
configs:
- config_name: de
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: de/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: de/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: de/test-*
- config_name: fr
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: fr/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: fr/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: fr/test-*
- config_name: it
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: it/train-*
  - split: validation
    path: it/validation-*
  - split: test
    path: it/test-*
---

# SLDS monolingual subsets

Monolingual pairs from the Swiss Landmark Decisions Summarization dataset
([ipst/slds](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ipst/slds), Rolshoven et al., Findings of
EMNLP 2025). Each row pairs a Swiss Federal Supreme Court decision with the headnote the
court publishes in the same language.

## Construction

Each config keeps exactly the rows of the corresponding `ipst/slds` split where
`decision_language` and `headnote_language` both equal the config's language, with the
original column values unchanged (`decision_id`, `decision`, `headnote`, `law_area`,
`year`, `url`). The cross-lingual pairs of the source dataset are omitted.

## Subsets and splits

| config | train | validation | test |
|---|---|---|---|
| de | 13,550 | 137 | 207 |
| fr | 5,456 | 55 | 107 |
| it | 939 | 8 | 12 |

## License and citation

CC BY 4.0, following the source dataset. Please cite the source paper:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{rolshoven-etal-2025-unlocking,
  title = "Unlocking Legal Knowledge: A Multilingual Dataset for Judicial Summarization in {S}witzerland",
  author = {Rolshoven, Luca and Rasiah, Vishvaksenan and Bose, Srinanda Br{\"u}gger and Hostettler, Sarah and Burkhalter, Lara and St{\"u}rmer, Matthias and Niklaus, Joel},
  booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025",
  month = nov,
  year = "2025",
}
```