Eur Lex Sum: EU Legislation and Official Summaries in Danish and English

1,605 records pair full EU legislative documents with their official plain-language summaries from the EUR-Lex portal. The dataset was built from the EU Publications Office CELLAR repository using SPARQL queries and XHTML content extraction, covering Danish and English languages. It was created by oliverkinch and last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Train abstractive summarization models based on the paired full-text and summary structure.
• Fine-tune multilingual language models based on the parallel Danish and English legal texts.
• Benchmark information extraction systems for identifying key legal provisions based on the document-summary pairs.
• Analyze the style and structure of official legislative summaries based on the EUR-Lex collection.

Strengths

• Contains 1,605 verified document-summary pairs from the official EUR-Lex portal.
• Provides parallel content in two languages (Danish and English), enabling cross-lingual study.
• Built using a structured extraction method (SPARQL and XHTML) from an authoritative source (EU CELLAR).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but the total size, file formats, and specific column names are unknown.
• Data may reflect the geographic and linguistic bias inherent to the selected EU legislation.

Provenance

Source

EU Publications Office CELLAR repository via EUR-Lex.

Collection Method

SPARQL-based discovery and XHTML content extraction.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 11:45:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

European Union