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The Russian Legislative Corpus

Denis Saveliev, Ruslan Kuchakov

Abstract

We present the comprehensive Russian primary and secondary legislation corpus covering 1991 to 2023. The corpus collects all 281,413 texts (176,523,268 tokens) of non-secret federal regulations and acts, along with their metadata. The corpus has two versions the original text with minimal preprocessing and a version prepared for linguistic analysis with morphosyntactic markup.

The Russian Legislative Corpus

Abstract

We present the comprehensive Russian primary and secondary legislation corpus covering 1991 to 2023. The corpus collects all 281,413 texts (176,523,268 tokens) of non-secret federal regulations and acts, along with their metadata. The corpus has two versions the original text with minimal preprocessing and a version prepared for linguistic analysis with morphosyntactic markup.
Paper Structure (14 sections, 2 figures, 2 tables)

This paper contains 14 sections, 2 figures, 2 tables.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Related corpora
  3. Historical context of publication routine and official sources of legal information
  4. Public sources of legislation
  5. Private sources of legislation
  6. Corpus building
  7. Sentence segmentation
  8. Removing uninformative blocks
  9. Removing arrays of digits
  10. Unifying formatting
  11. Flattening lists
  12. Core legal texts
  13. Processing
  14. Access and usage

Figures (2)

  • Figure 1: Yearly corpus size, symbols, before/after preprocessing, all legislation and core legislation
  • Figure 2: Example of XML structure