diff --git a/src/arc_spice/data/multieurlex_utils.py b/src/arc_spice/data/multieurlex_utils.py
index 8607b07..d914cea 100644
--- a/src/arc_spice/data/multieurlex_utils.py
+++ b/src/arc_spice/data/multieurlex_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import json
+from typing import Union
 
 import torch
 from datasets import load_dataset
@@ -14,14 +15,19 @@
     class_descriptors = json.loads(descriptors_file.read())
     descriptors_file.close()
 
+# For identifying where the adopted decisions begin
 ARTICLE_1_MARKERS = {"en": "\nArticle 1\n", "fr": "\nArticle premier\n"}
 
 
+# creates a multi-hot vector for classification loss
 class MultiHot:
-    def __init__(self, n_classes):
+    """Class that will multi-hot encode the classes for classification."""
+
+    def __init__(self, n_classes: int) -> None:
         self.n_classes = n_classes
 
-    def __call__(self, class_labels):
+    def __call__(self, class_labels: list[int]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # create list of one-hots and sum down the class axis
         one_hot_class_labels = one_hot(
             torch.tensor(class_labels),
             num_classes=self.n_classes,
@@ -55,11 +61,24 @@ def extract_articles(item: LazyRow, lang_pair: dict[str:str]):
 
 
 class PreProcesser:
-    def __init__(self, language_pair):
+    """Function to preprocess the data, for the purposes of removing unused languages"""
+
+    def __init__(self, language_pair: dict[str:str]) -> None:
         self.source_language = language_pair["source"]
         self.target_language = language_pair["target"]
 
-    def __call__(self, data_row):
+    def __call__(
+        self, data_row: dict[str : Union[str, list]]
+    ) -> dict[str : Union[str, list]]:
+        """
+        processes the row in the dataset
+
+        Args:
+            data_row: input row
+
+        Returns:
+            row : processed row with relevant items
+        """
         source_text = data_row["text"][self.source_language]
         target_text = data_row["text"][self.target_language]
         labels = data_row["labels"]
@@ -71,30 +90,43 @@ def __call__(self, data_row):
         return row
 
 
-def load_multieurlex(level, lang_pair):
+def load_multieurlex(
+    level: int, lang_pair: dict[str:str]
+) -> tuple[list[Dataset], dict[str : Union[int, list]]]:
+    """
+    load the multieurlex dataset
 
-    assert level in [1, 2, 3], "there are 3 levels of hierarchy: 1,2,3."
+    Args:
+        level: level of hierarchy/specicifity of the labels
+        lang_pair: dictionary specifying the language pair.
 
+    Returns:
+        List of datasets and a dictionary with some metadata information
+    """
+    assert level in [1, 2, 3], "there are 3 levels of hierarchy: 1,2,3."
+    # format level for the class descriptor dictionary, add these to a list
     level = f"level_{level}"
     classes = class_concepts[level]
     descriptors = []
     for class_id in classes:
         descriptors.append(class_descriptors[class_id])
 
+    # load the dataset with huggingface API
     data = load_dataset(
         "multi_eurlex",
         "all_languages",
         label_level=level,
         trust_remote_code=True,
     )
-
+    # define metadata
     meta_data = {
         "n_classes": len(classes),
         "class_labels": classes,
         "class_descriptors": descriptors,
     }
+    # instantiate the preprocessor
     preprocesser = PreProcesser(lang_pair)
-
+    # preprocess each split
     train_dataset = data["train"].map(preprocesser, remove_columns=["text"])
     extracted_train = train_dataset.map(
         extract_articles,
@@ -110,4 +142,5 @@ def load_multieurlex(level, lang_pair):
         extract_articles,
         fn_kwargs={"lang_pair": lang_pair},
     )
+    # return datasets and metadata
     return [extracted_train, extracted_test, extracted_val], meta_data