Legal Advice Reddit Posts with Eleven Topic Labels

A collection of Reddit posts from the Legal Advice community, with each post's text and title mapped into one of eleven classes based on the original post's flair. It was introduced for legal domain adaptation research by Li et al. in 2022.

Use Cases

• Train a text classifier to map post text and title into one of the eleven flair-based legal categories.
• Analyze the distribution of legal question topics across the eleven flair classes within the Reddit community.
• Fine-tune a language model on informal legal question text for domain adaptation in the legal field.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the Pushshift Reddit dataset, a known archive of Reddit content.
• Posts are classified into eleven distinct legal topic categories based on user-applied flairs.
• Dataset was created for and presented in a peer-reviewed research publication (NLLP 2022).

Limitations

• The sample size and number of rows are unknown, making it difficult to assess statistical power.
• Questions are described as informal, which may introduce noise or non-standard language for legal analysis.
• Geographic and temporal coverage are not specified, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Reddit posts from the /r/legaldvice community, sourced via the Pushshift Reddit dataset.

Collection Method

Posts were collected and their text and title were mapped into classes based on the original post's flair.

Freshness

Data was last updated on the platform in February 2023.

Geography

Region tags suggest a focus on the United States (Regionus).