SYSTEMS, METHODS AND SOFTWARE FOR PROCESSING PHRASES AND CLAUSES IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Patent №

US 8,788,523

Granted

2014-07-22

Filed 2009

Owner

WEST SERVICES, INC.

+3 more

Lab

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12553752

Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 40/289G06F 15/16G06F 16/00G06F 16/182G06F 16/1865G06F 16/50G06F 16/93G06F 17/00+6 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Speech0.96
Machine learning0.95
AI hardware0.82
Evolutionary computation0.21
Vision0.00

Ownership

WEST SERVICES, INC.

assignment · 236180141

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES

assignment · 236180377

THOMSON REUTERS GLOBAL RESOURCES UNLIMITED COMPANY

namechg · 442640597

THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH

assignment · 520560198

Assignors

BEROSIK, GARY, ZIELUND, THOMAS, DORR, DIETMAR, LEIDNER, JOCHEN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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