Research on NLP-based semantic analysis system for extracting, classifying and matching legal clause segments against treatises

总部设在多伦多的Clausehound Inc.为大学、学院、孵化器和加速器等教育机构提供商法培训、工具和课程。Clausehound帮助其客户(也包括律师和企业家)创建定制合同，使他们能够有效和高效地识别和解决合同起草和谈判过程中的问题。快速、自动处理(索引)法律文档(合同、教科书等)识别、分类和分析子句语言和子句解释是Clausehound的业务实质。该公司正在与Seneca合作开发一种新的自然语言处理和条款匹配软件，该软件将提供条款片段与法律评论的自动链接。通过自动匹配过程，与手动方法相比，Clausehound将能够以更快的速度、更高的准确性和更低的成本获取新的法律文件、文本和评论。这将消除该公司目前面临的一个重大增长障碍。该项目完成后，Clausehound将能够加快“私人图书馆帖子”的市场采用。这一新的平台功能允许组织发布合同条款的私人库，创建一个特定于客户的门户。

Toronto-based, Clausehound Inc. supplies business law training, tools and curriculum to educational organizations: universities, colleges, incubators and accelerators. Clausehound helps its customers, which also include lawyers and entrepreneurs, to create customized contracts, allowing them to effectively and efficiently identify and resolve problems during contract drafting and negotiation.Fast and automatic processing (indexing) of legal documentation (contracts, textbooks, etc.) to identify, categorize and analyze clause language and clause explanations is the essence of Clausehound's business. The company is partnering with Seneca to develop a new Natural Language Processing, clause-matching software that will provide automatic linking of clause segments with legal commentary. By automating the matching process, Clausehound will be able to ingest new legal documents, texts, and commentaries, at higher speed, with better accuracy, and at much lower cost, compared to manual approaches. This will remove a significant barrier to growth, currently faced by the company. Upon completion of the project Clausehound will be able to accelerate market adoption of "private library postings". This new platform feature allows organizations to post private libraries of contract terms, creating a portal specific to the client.