# Polish SCOTUS-Dec
**Polish SCOTUS-Dec** is a long-document legal text classification dataset
derived from the publicly available
[SCOTUS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pasinit/scotus) dataset.
The dataset contains Polish translations of U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
The task is a **binary document classification problem** in which the goal
is to predict the ideological direction associated with the court decision:
**liberal** or **conservative**.
SCOTUS-Dec is part of the **LongContext** benchmark introduced with
[Polish ModernBERT](ARXIV_URL).
## Dataset statistics
| Split | Examples |
|---|---:|
| Train | 7,413 |
| Validation | 912 |
| Test | 931 |
| **Total** | **9,256** |
SCOTUS-Dec uses the same court opinions and dataset splits as SCOTUS-Dom.
The dataset contains particularly long documents: **74.5% of test examples
exceed 4,096 tokens** when tokenized with the Polish ModernBERT Base tokenizer.
## Dataset construction
The original English court opinions were translate…
