Indian Supreme Court Judgements Dataset (Sentence-Level, Translated to Tamil)
Overview
This dataset contains Indian Supreme Court judgements that have been split into sentences and translated into Tamil. The original judgements were sourced from the Indian Kanoon website. The dataset is useful for legal text processing, multilingual NLP tasks, and cross-lingual legal studies.
Data Processing Pipeline
Sentence Splitting:
- Used
pySBD(Python Sentence Boundary Disambiguation) to split the judgements into sentences.
- Used
Translation:
- Translated the extracted sentences from English to Tamil using the
IndicTrans2model.
- Translated the extracted sentences from English to Tamil using the
Use Cases
- Legal NLP research (sentence-level analysis of judgements)
- Legal document summarization in Tamil
Licensing & Attribution
- The original judgements were obtained from Indian Kanoon, which aggregates publicly available court decisions.