---
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- de
tags:
- legal
- information obligation
pretty_name: Information obligations in the Ausrian Legal Information System (RIS)
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

Federal consolidated section* documents from the [Austrian Legal Information System (RIS)](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Bundesrecht/), classified whether they prescribe information obligation (_positive_) or not (_negative_), as defined by the [Austrian Corporate Service Portal Act (USPG) § 1 Abs. 1.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/i/2009/52/P2/NOR40236229)

* `full.txt`: the full corpus in fasttext format.
* `full_with_nor.txt`: the full corpus in fasttext format, where the first token (starting with NOR) is the unique ID of the document as can be found by in the above linked database.
* `train.txt`, `dev.txt`, and `test.txt` are the 80:10:10 split of the full corpus to train, validate, and test it, as was used to train the [uwk-cegov/information_obligation_classifier](https://huggingface.co/uwk-cegov/information_obligation_classifier) model.

|label|training docs|training words|valid. docs|valid. words|test docs|test words|total docs|total words|
|:----|:----|:----|:----|:----|:----|:----|:----|:----|
|positive|155|79.9%| 100 927 |74.7%|19|9.8%| 8 791 |6.5%|20|10.3%| 25 390 |18.8%|194| 135 108|
negative|462|79.9%| 456 300 |75.5%|57|9.9%| 67 627 |11.2%|59|10.2%| 80 407 |13.3%|578| 604 334 |
total|617|79.9%| 557 227 |75.4%|76|9.8%| 76 418 |10.3%|79|10.2%| 105 797 |14.3%|772| 739 442|



\* Consolidation means that all amendments and corrections subsequently promulgated have been incorporated into a piece of legislation. These documents are for information purposes only and are therefore not legally binding. The documentation unit (a document) is a section (Paragraf) or an article or an annex to a legal provision.