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+A novel dataset for benchmarking citation worthiness detection task in the American Legal Corpus. For more details about the dataset please refer to the original paper.
+
+
+### Data Fields
+
+- **File Name**: the case file to which the sentence belongs.
+- **Sentence Number**: The sentence number as present in the document.
+- **Sentence**: The naturally occurring sentence in the text (after preprocessing/removing citation span.)
+- **Label**: Integer value of ‘0’ or ‘1’. ‘0’ represents that the sentence is not citation worthy whereas ‘1’ represents that the sentence is citation worthy.
+
+
+### Data Splits
+
+|Split| #datapoints  |
+|--|--|
+| Train-Small | 800,000 |
+| Validation-Small | 100,000 |
+| Test-Small | 100,000 |
+| Train-Medium | 8,000,000 |
+| Validation-Medium | 1,000,000 |
+| Test-Medium | 1,000,000 |
+| Train-Large | 142,588,927 |
+| Validation-Large | 17,934,940 |
+| Test-Large | 17,935,336 |
+
+
+### Small Dataset
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# get small dataset
+dataset = load_dataset("Vidhaan/LegalCitationWorthiness", "small")
+```
+
+### Medium Dataset
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# get medium dataset
+dataset = load_dataset("Vidhaan/LegalCitationWorthiness", "medium")
+```
+
+### Large Dataset
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# get large dataset
+dataset = load_dataset("Vidhaan/LegalCitationWorthiness", "large")
+```
+
+## Citation Information
+
+
+## Contributions
+Thanks to [@PritishWadhwa](https://github.com/PritishWadhwa), [@gitongithub](https://github.com/gitongithub), [@dhumketu](https://github.com/dhumketu) for adding this dataset