NDLI: Handing of significant deviations from boilerplate text

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Taylor, K. Harwood, M. Morris, G.
Abstract	We are attempting to extract information automatically from large legal documents. SPADES is an expert system for screening pension plans submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a task which has resisted prior automation attempts. Nearly all pension plans are prepared by plan preparation specialists. Most of a pension plan document consists of boilerplate text, which is reused by the preparer in nearly every plan. We describe techniques used for dealing with plans which essentially follow the boilerplate model for a particular preparer, but contain significant deviations.A significant deviation is found to be any extra paragraph in a new plan which was not predicted by the boilerplate model. Other deviations from the boilerplate model can be handled fairly easily. Treatment of a significant deviation is affected by whether the topic of the extra paragraph can be identified. When it can, the logical impact of the extra text may be deduced by the system, or the system may guide an IRS Agent in analyzing the extra paragraph.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	154
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897912306
DOI	10.1145/41735.41752
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1987-12-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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Handing of significant deviations from boilerplate text