MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus

Niklaus, Joël; Matoshi, Veton; Stürmer, Matthias; Chalkidis, Ilias; Ho, Daniel E (3 June 2024). MultiLegalPile: A 689GB Multilingual Legal Corpus In: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Large, high-quality datasets are crucial for training Large Language Models (LLMs). However, so far, there are few datasets available for specialized critical domains such as law and the available ones are often only for the English language. We curate and release MULTILEGALPILE, a 689GB corpus in 24 languages from 17 jurisdictions. The MULTILEGALPILE corpus, which includes diverse legal data sources with varying licenses, allows for pretraining NLP models under fair use, with more permissive licenses for the Eurlex Resources and Legal mC4 subsets. We pretrain two RoBERTa models and one Longformer multilingually, and 24 monolingual models on each of the language-specific subsets and evaluate them on LEXTREME. Additionally, we evaluate the English and multilingual models on LexGLUE. Our multilingual models set a new SotA on LEXTREME and our English models on LexGLUE. We release the dataset, the trained models, and all of the code under the most open possible licenses.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

Business School > Institute for Public Sector Transformation
Business School > Institute for Public Sector Transformation > Data and Infrastructure
Business School

Name:

Niklaus, Joël0000-0002-2779-1653;
Matoshi, Veton0009-0002-6613-5701;
Stürmer, Matthias0000-0001-9038-4041;
Chalkidis, Ilias and
Ho, Daniel E

Language:

English

Submitter:

Safiya Verbruggen

Date Deposited:

25 Aug 2023 11:48

Last Modified:

20 Aug 2024 10:42

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ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.19714

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19714

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