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Gesetz über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau
Kantonales Geoinformationsgesetz
KGeoIG
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/740.100
740.100 - Gesetz über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau (Kantonales Geoinformationsgesetz, KGeoIG) 740.100 * Änderungstabellen am Schluss des Erlasses 2011/6-08 1 Gesetz über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau (Kantonales Geoinformationsgesetz, KGeoIG) Vom 24. Mai 2011 (Stand 1. September 2021) ...
ag
de
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https://www.lexfind.ch/tol/1552/de
https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/740.110
Dekret über die Gebühren im Geoinformationsbereich 740.110 * Änderungstabellen am Schluss des Erlasses AGS 2011/6-10 1 Dekret über die Gebühren im Geoinformationsbereich Vom 24. Mai 2011 (Stand 1. Januar 2018) Der Grosse Rat des Kantons Aargau, gestützt auf § 82 Abs. 1 lit. f der Kantonsverfassung und...
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https://www.lexfind.ch/tol/1559/de
https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/740.111
740.111 - Verordnung über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau (Kantonale Geoinformationsverordnung, KGeoIV) 740.111 * Änderungstabellen am Schluss des Erlasses 2011/6-27 1 Verordnung über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau (Kantonale Geoinformationsverordnung, KGeoIV) Vom 16. November 2011 (Stand 1. ...
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Beschluss über Standesfarbe, Wappen und Siegel des Kantons
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/117.110
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Gesetz über das Kantons- und das Gemeindebürgerrecht
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/121.200
"121.200 - Gesetz über das Kantons- und das Gemeindebürgerrecht (KBüG) 121.200 * Änderungs(...TRUNCATED)
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Verordnung über das Kantons- und das Gemeindebürgerrecht
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/121.213
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de
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Gesetz über das Ortsbürgerrecht
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121.300
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/121.300
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de
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Gesetz über die Register und das Meldewesen
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https://gesetzessammlungen.ag.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/122.200
"122.200 - Gesetz über die Register und das Meldewesen (Register- und Meldegesetz, RMG) 122.200(...TRUNCATED)
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Dataset Card for Swiss Legislation

Dataset Summary

Swiss Legislation is a multilingual, diachronic dataset of 36K Swiss laws. This dataset is part of a challenging Information Retreival task.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Languages

The total number of texts in the dataset is 35,698. The dataset is saved in lexfind_v2.jsonl format. Switzerland has four official languages German, French, Italian and Romanch with some additional English laws being represenated. Laws are written by legal experts. 36K & 18K & 11K & 6K & 534 & 207

Language Subset Number of Documents
German de 18K
French fr 11K
Italian it 6K
Romanch rm 534
English en 207

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

Each entry in the dataset is a dictionary with the following keys:

  • canton: the canton of origin of the legislation
    • example: "ag"
  • language: the language of the legislation
    • example: "de"
  • uuid: a unique identifier for the legislation
    • example: "ec312f57-05fe-4552-ba50-8c9c269e0f3b"
  • title: the title of the legislation
    • example: "Gesetz über die Geoinformation im Kanton Aargau"
  • short: a short description of the legislation
    • example: "Kantonales Geoinformationsgesetz"
  • abbreviation: an abbreviation for the legislation
    • example: "KGeoIG"
  • sr_number: a reference number for the legislation
    • example: "740.100"
  • is_active: whether the legislation is currently in force
    • example: true
  • version_active_since: the date since when the legislation's current version is active
    • example: "2021-09-01"
  • family_active_since: the date since when the legislation's current version's family is active
    • example: "2011-05-24"
  • version_inactive_since: the date since when the legislation's current version is inactive
    • example: null
  • version_found_at: the date the legislation's current version was found
    • example: "2021-09-01"
  • pdf_url: a link to the legislation's pdf
  • html_url: a link to the legislation's html
  • pdf_content: the legislation's pdf content
    • example: "740.100 - Gesetz über..."
  • html_content: the legislation's html content
    • example: ""

Data Instances

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Data Fields

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Data Splits

  1. 'ch': Switzerland (Federal) - 15840
  2. 'fr': Fribourg - 1633
  3. 'be': Bern - 1344
  4. 'vs': Valais - 1328
  5. 'gr': Graubünden - 1205
  6. 'ne': Neuchâtel - 1115
  7. 'zh': Zurich - 974
  8. 'bs': Basel-Stadt - 899
  9. 'bl': Basel-Landschaft - 863
  10. 'vd': Vaud - 870
  11. 'ge': Geneva - 837
  12. 'sg': St. Gallen - 764
  13. 'ju': Jura - 804
  14. 'zg': Zug - 632
  15. 'ti': Ticino - 627
  16. 'lu': Lucerne - 584
  17. 'so': Solothurn - 547
  18. 'ow': Obwalden - 513
  19. 'ik': Interkantonal - 510
  20. 'sh': Schaffhausen - 469
  21. 'gl': Glarus - 467
  22. 'tg': Thurgau - 453
  23. 'sz': Schwyz - 423
  24. 'ai': Appenzell Innerrhoden - 416
  25. 'ag': Aargau - 483
  26. 'ar': Appenzell Ausserrhoden - 330
  27. 'nw': Nidwalden - 401
  28. 'ur': Uri - 367

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The original data are published from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (https://www.bger.ch) in unprocessed formats (HTML). The documents were downloaded from the Entscheidsuche portal (https://entscheidsuche.ch) in HTML.

Who are the source language producers?

The decisions are written by the judges and clerks in the language of the proceedings.

Annotations

Annotation process

Who are the annotators?

Metadata is published by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (https://www.bger.ch).

Personal and Sensitive Information

The dataset contains publicly available court decisions from the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Personal or sensitive information has been anonymized by the court before publication according to the following guidelines: https://www.bger.ch/home/juridiction/anonymisierungsregeln.html.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

Licensing Information

We release the data under CC-BY-4.0 which complies with the court licensing (https://www.bger.ch/files/live/sites/bger/files/pdf/de/urteilsveroeffentlichung_d.pdf) © Swiss Federal Supreme Court, 2002-2022

The copyright for the editorial content of this website and the consolidated texts, which is owned by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This means that you can re-use the content provided you acknowledge the source and indicate any changes you have made. Source: https://www.bger.ch/files/live/sites/bger/files/pdf/de/urteilsveroeffentlichung_d.pdf

Citation Information

Please cite our ArXiv-Preprint

@misc{rasiah2023scale,
      title={SCALE: Scaling up the Complexity for Advanced Language Model Evaluation}, 
      author={Vishvaksenan Rasiah and Ronja Stern and Veton Matoshi and Matthias Stürmer and Ilias Chalkidis and Daniel E. Ho and Joel Niklaus},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2306.09237},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
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