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New dataset offers 200+ years of Bangladeshi legal texts

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Researchers have introduced the Bangladesh Legal Acts Dataset (BLAD), a comprehensive collection of 1,484 legislative acts from 1799 to 2025. This dataset includes the full text of each act, its structural components, repeal status, and metadata linking it to historical governance and legal frameworks. BLAD supports temporal and multilingual analysis, featuring documents in English, Bengali, and mixed languages, and aims to fill a critical gap in legal NLP resources for South Asian civil-law jurisdictions. AI

IMPACT This dataset could enable new research in legal NLP for low-resource, multilingual contexts.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new dataset. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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New dataset offers 200+ years of Bangladeshi legal texts

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Adib Sakhawat ·

    BLAD: A Historically Contextualized, Multilingual Dataset of Bangladeshi Legal Acts (1799 to 2025)

    arXiv:2607.17111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Bangladesh Legal Acts Dataset (BLAD), a curated collection of 1{,}484 legislative acts enacted between 1799 and 2025. Each act is represented with its full text, structured sections and footnotes, repeal status, and m…

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