---
pretty_name: 'Lovdata NCC: Parliamentary Ombudsman (2005)'
language:
- nob
- nor
- nno
license: other
license_name: NLOD 2.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
- fill-mask
task_ids:
- language-modeling
domains:
- Legal
---

# Dataset Card for Lovdata NCC: Parliamentary Ombudsman (2005)

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Statements from the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman (*Sivilombudsmannen*) from Lovdata's CD/DVD collection, via the [NCC](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NbAiLab/NCC).
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This subset contains documents from the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman (*Sivilombudsmannen*, abbreviated SOMB in the source), as they stood in Lovdata's CD/DVD collection, last published in 2005. The Ombudsman reviews complaints against public administration and publishes its reasoning, so the texts are case-based administrative law.

Lovdata is the Norwegian foundation that publishes the legal information of Norway. A collection of their CDs and DVDs, last published in 2005, is included in the Norwegian Colossal Corpus ([NCC](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NbAiLab/NCC)). For privacy purposes the original NCC collection excludes documents that were likely to contain sensitive personal information; all court verdicts were excluded.

This material used to be distributed as a single `lovdata` subset. It is now split by document type, so that the very different kinds of text it contains — statutes, local regulations, circulars, ombudsman statements — can be selected separately. The `lovdata` subset itself now holds the *current* laws and central regulations instead.

## Dataset Description

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- **Number of samples**: 3.28K
- **Number of tokens (Llama 3)**: 11.56M
- **Average document length in tokens (min, max)**: 3.52K (33, 70.90K)
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## Dataset Structure
An example from the dataset looks as follows.
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```py
{
  "id": "lovdata-ncc-somb-rundskriv-0",
  "text": "Publisert: Somb-1981-9 (1981 30) Sammendrag: Avskjedsgrunnlag - distriktsjordmor i dobbeltstilling. [...]",
  "source": "lovdata-ncc-somb-rundskriv",
  "added": "2026-08-06",
  "created": "2021-01-01, 2021-12-31",
  "token_count": 5310
}
```

### Data Fields

An entry in the dataset consists of the following fields:

- `id` (`str`): A unique identifier for each document.
- `text` (`str`): The content of the document.
- `source` (`str`): The source of the document (see [Source Data](#source-data)).
- `added` (`str`): The date when the document was added to this collection.
- `created` (`str`): The date range when the document was originally created.
- `token_count` (`int`): The number of tokens in the sample computed using the Llama 3 tokenizer.
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### Dataset Statistics

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<p align="center">
<img src="./images/dist_document_length.png" width="600" style="margin-right: 10px;" />
</p>
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### Annotation Overview
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Each document comes with annotations describing its content, such as content quality, information density, and educational value.
Each bar shows the share of documents at each level of one annotation, from worst (light) to best (dark).
To learn more about the annotations and how to use them, see the [annotations section](https://huggingface.co/datasets/danish-foundation-models/norwegian-dynaword#annotations) of the main readme.

<p align="center">
<img src="./images/annotation_profile.png" width="700" style="margin-right: 10px;" />
</p>
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# Additional Information

## Source Data

The documents come from the Norwegian Colossal Corpus ([NCC](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NbAiLab/NCC)), published by the [National Library of Norway](https://www.nb.no/en/), where they carry the document type `lovdata_cd_somb_rundskriv_2005`.

## License Information

This dataset is licensed under [NLOD 2.0](https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0). This license is derived from the original [publication](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NbAiLab/NCC), which is published by the [National Library of Norway](https://www.nb.no/en/).

## Filtering

This subset is the result of the following filtering over all available data splits of the [NCC](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NbAiLab/NCC). It includes:

- Documents tagged with the document type `lovdata_cd_somb_rundskriv_2005`
- Documents which consist of at least 10 tokens (Llama)
- Documents which are not duplicated

To see how many documents were filtered at each step see the [log](create.py.log)

## Limitations

- The texts are from 2005 and earlier. They do not state current Norwegian law. For law in force, use the [lovdata](../lovdata/lovdata.md) subset.
- The NCC only records the year of publication, so `created` is a full-year range rather than an exact date.
- The source is a text conversion of a CD/DVD publication, so document boundaries, headings and tables follow that conversion rather than Lovdata's current structure.

### Citation Information

If you use this source please cite the following articles:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{kummervold-etal-2022-norwegian-colossal,
  title     = {The {N}orwegian colossal corpus: A text corpus for training large {N}orwegian language models},
  author    = {Kummervold, Per E  and
               Wetjen, Freddy    and
               De la Rosa, Javier},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)},
  year      = {2022},
  address   = {Marseille, France},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.410},
  pages     = {3852--3860},
}
```