Vietnamese Legal Corpus With Cross-Document Relationship Graph

Over 1 million documents, including laws, decrees, and circulars, are sourced from the official Government Legal Document Portal. The collection, curated by Thịnh Ngô, provides structured metadata, raw HTML full-text, and a graph detailing amendments, citations, and repeals. It was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Train text classification models to categorize documents by type (e.g., law, decree, circular) using metadata.
• Perform legal citation network analysis using the provided cross-document relationship graph of amendments and repeals.
• Fine-tune question-answering models on the raw HTML full-text content of laws and decrees.
• Generate summaries of lengthy legal documents using the structured text content for training summarization models.
• Analyze temporal patterns in legal amendments and document issuance using the document metadata.

Strengths

• Contains over 1 million legal documents.
• Includes a structured graph of legal relationships (amendments, citations, repeals).
• Sourced from vbpl.vn, the official Government Legal Document Portal.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, column names, and file sizes are not provided.
• The dataset description lacks details on temporal coverage and update frequency.
• Sample data and specific file formats are unavailable for review.

Provenance

Source

vbpl.vn, the official Government Legal Document Portal operated by the Ministry of Justice.

Collection Method

Curated and gathered by Thịnh Ngô.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Vietnam