ConReader: Exploring implicit relations in contracts for contract clause extraction

• Main Authors: XU, Weiwen, DENG, Yang, LEI, Wenqiang, ZHAO, Wenlong, CHUA, Tat-Seng, LAM, Wai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Complexity issues; Contract clause; Extraction method; High complexity; Legal contracts; Plain text; State of the art; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9135; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10138/viewcontent/2022.emnlp_main.166.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We study automatic Contract Clause Extraction (CCE) by modeling implicit relations in legal contracts. Existing CCE methods mostly treat contracts as plain text, creating a substantial barrier to understanding contracts of high complexity. In this work, we first comprehensively analyze the complexit...