# Sri Lanka Document Datasets: A Large-Scale, Multilingual Resource for Law, News, and Policy

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04124 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.04124/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 0 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Oct 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [SinhaLegal: A Benchmark Corpus for Information Extraction and Analysis in Sinhala Legislative Texts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.04854/) (2026)
- [Cross-Temporal Sinhala OCR: Page-Level Adaptation and Diachronic Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.29378/) (2026)
- [Monsoon Mayhem to Market Waves: Forecasting Fisheries Resilience in Sri Lanka](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.04023/) (2026)
- [Trilingual Topic Modeling of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Debates](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.20365/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a collection of open, machine-readable document datasets covering parliamentary proceedings, legal judgments, government publications, news, and tourism statistics from Sri Lanka. The collection currently comprises of 299,131 documents (85.4 GB) across 26 datasets in Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The datasets are updated daily and mirrored on GitHub and Hugging Face. These resources aim to support research in computational linguistics, legal analytics, socio-political studies, and multilingual natural language processing. We describe the data sources, collection pipeline, formats, and potential use cases, while discussing licensing and ethical considerations. This manuscript is at version v2026-10-12-0839.