README.md

metadata

task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - legal
  - bills
pretty_name: bill_labels_us
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

Dataset Card for "bill_labels_us"

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Homepage: BillML
• Repository: BillML
• Paper: More Information Needed
• Leaderboard: More Information Needed
• Point of Contact: More Information Needed

Dataset Summary

Dataset for US Congressional bills with policy area and legislative subjects information (bill_labels_us). Contains data for bills from the 108th to the 118th Congress, approximately 119,000 documents.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

More Information Needed

Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

default

Data Fields

• id: id of the bill in format(congress number + bill type + bill number + bill version).
• congress: number of the congress.
• bill_type: type of the bill.
• bill_number: number of the bill.
• bill_version: version of the bill.
• title: official title of the bill.
• sections: list of bill sections with section_id, text and header.
• sections_length: number with lenght of the sections list.
• text: bill text.
• text_length: number of characters in the text.
• policy_area: the policy area that bill relates to.
• legislative_subjects: list of the legislative subjects that bill relates to.

Data Splits

train

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Bills (proposed laws) are specialized, structured documents with great public significance. Often, the language of a bill may not directly explain the potential impact of the legislation. This dataset collects the text of bills and metadata that can identify and categorize bills. As a result, this dataset collects bill text; it also provides text as a list of sections with the text and header. The policy area and legislative subjects are categories assigned to each bill by specialist researchers at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. With these labels, it should be possible to train models to autoclassify bills.

More Information Needed

Source Data

govinfo.gov

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The data consists of the US congressional bills that were collected from the govinfo.gov service provided by the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) under CC0-1.0 license.

Who are the source language producers?

More Information Needed

Annotations

Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

Who are the annotators?

The policy area, legislative subjects and other annotations were produced by analysts at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

These are legislative proposals in the US Congress.

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

dreamproit.com

Licensing Information

Bill and metadata information are public and are unlicensed, as it is data produced by government entities. The collection and enhancement work that we provide for this dataset, to the degree it may be covered by copyright, is released under CC0.

Citation Information

[More Information Needed]

Contributions

Thanks to @aih @BorodaUA, @alexbojko for adding this dataset.