kwabenaowusujnr/ghana-ai-legal-chatbot
Domain:
natural language processingRecord type:
softwaredataset
Creator:
kwa
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# Ghana AI Legal Chatbot
**Design and Implementation of an AI Legal Chatbot to Support Legal Awareness Among Low-Income Citizens in Ghana**
## Overview
This repository contains the complete dataset and codebase for an AI-powered legal chatbot designed to improve legal awareness among low-income citizens in Ghana. The system provides general legal information in multiple Ghanaian languages (English, Twi, Ga, and Ewe) while adhering to strict ethical guidelines.
### Key Features
- **Multilingual Support**: English, Twi, Ga, and Ewe
- **Hybrid NLP Pipeline**: Intent classification + Named Entity Recognition + Constrained response generation
- **Ethical Guardrails**: Prevents personalized legal advice, ensures disclaimers, maintains bias-neutral language
- **Domain Coverage**: Tenancy disputes, employment rights, domestic violence, inheritance law, constitutional rights, and legal procedures
## Repository Structure
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ghana-ai-legal-chatbot/
│
├── dataset/ # Legal text and conversational datasets
│ ├── constitution/ # 1992 Constitution articles
│ ├── statutes/ # Civil statutes (tenancy, employment, DV, inheritance)
│ ├── conversations/ # Synthetic legal queries (200+ utterances)
│ ├── multilingual/ # Aligned translations (EN, Twi, Ga, Ewe)
│ ├── annotations/ # Intent labels and NER annotations
│ └── docs/ # Dataset documentation
│
├── data/
│ └── sample/ # Sample data for quick testing
│
├── models/
│ ├── intent_classifier/ # Trained intent classification model
│ ├── ner_model/ # Trained NER model
│ └── prompts/ # Response templates and system prompts
│
├── training/
│ ├── train_intent.py # Intent classifier training script
│ ├── train_ner.py # NER model training script
│ └── train_pipeline.py # Full training pipeline
│
├── evaluation/
│ ├── evaluate_intent.py # Intent classifier eva …