518K Vietnamese legal documents (1924–2026)

Name: 518K Vietnamese legal documents (1924–2026)
Availability: InStock
Author: th1nhng0

by th1nhng0·Mar 22, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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518k Vietnamese legal documents fill a massive gap in Southeast Asian NLP datasets.

Strengths

•Parquet format and CC BY 4.0 license make it immediately usable.
•Covers a century of legislation, providing historical context often missing.

Weaknesses

•Limited to Vietnamese, reducing global appeal for general LLM pretraining.
•No built-in retrieval interface, users must build their own RAG.

Post Description

I scraped and open-sourced a corpus of 518,255 Vietnamese legal documents — laws, decrees, circulars, decisions — spanning a century of legislation. Metadata + full Markdown text, ~3.6 GB parquet, CC BY 4.0. Vietnamese legal text is nearly absent from existing NLP datasets despite Vietnam having one of the more prolific legislative systems in Southeast Asia.