Computer-implemented systems and methods of performing contract review
OwnerKathleen R. Mckeown, Jacob Mundt +1inventors
InventorsKATHLEEN R. MCKEOWN, JACOB MUNDT, BARRY SCHIFFMAN
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Abstract
The presently disclosed subject matter provides techniques for the automation of legal document review and creation of summary documents. The disclosed subject matter can be operated in training mode or classification mode. A preprocessor generates candidate items and associated features from input documents. Candidate items can be presented to a machine learning classifier, which classifies them as relevant or not relevant to a given legal category. A summary document can be provided including the relevant candidates.
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A method for generating a human-readable summary from one or more electronic documents comprising:
- selecting, using a processing arrangement, one or more candidate items from the one or more electronic documents, each having at least one corresponding associated feature;
- classifying each of the one or more candidate items as relevant or irrelevant to a category, based on the at least one corresponding associated feature;
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- producing a human-readable summary comprising the each of the one or more candidate items classified as relevant.
A computer system for generating a human-readable summary from one or more electronic documents, comprising:
- a first processing arrangement adapted to receive the electronic document and select one or more candidate items from the one or more electronic documents, each having at least one corresponding associated feature;
- a machine learning classifier, operatively coupled to the first processing arrangement, to classify each of the one or more candidate items as relevant or irrelevant to a category, based on the at least one corresponding associated feature;
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- a second processing arrangement, operatively coupled to the machine learning classifier, adapted to compose a one or more summary documents from the one or more candidate items classified as relevant.
A computer readable storage medium having data stored therein representing software executable by a computer, the software including instructions for generating a human-readable summary from one or more electronic documents, the storage medium comprising:
- instructions for selecting, using a processing arrangement, one or more candidate items from the one or more electronic documents, each having at least one corresponding associated feature;
- instructions for classifying each of the one or more candidate items as relevant or irrelevant to a category, based on the at least one corresponding associated feature;
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- instructions for producing a human-readable summary comprising the each of the one or more candidate items classified as relevant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.