Investigating Strategies for Clause Recommendation
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10716v1
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:03:47 GMT
- Title: Investigating Strategies for Clause Recommendation
- Authors: Sagar Joshi, Sumanth Balaji, Jerrin Thomas, Aparna Garimella, Vasudeva
Varma
- Abstract summary: We investigate the importance of similar contracts' representation for recommending clauses.
We generate clauses for 15 commonly occurring clause types in contracts.
We analyze clause recommendations in varying settings using information derived from similar contracts.
- Score: 12.913021807351328
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Clause recommendation is the problem of recommending a clause to a legal
contract, given the context of the contract in question and the clause type to
which the clause should belong. With not much prior work being done toward the
generation of legal contracts, this problem was proposed as a first step toward
the bigger problem of contract generation. As an open-ended text generation
problem, the distinguishing characteristics of this problem lie in the nature
of legal language as a sublanguage and the considerable similarity of textual
content within the clauses of a specific type. This similarity aspect in legal
clauses drives us to investigate the importance of similar contracts'
representation for recommending clauses. In our work, we experiment with
generating clauses for 15 commonly occurring clause types in contracts
expanding upon the previous work on this problem and analyzing clause
recommendations in varying settings using information derived from similar
contracts.
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