Patent Application
20210209357
Generally, the present disclosure relates to the field of data processing. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents.
Classification is technologically important to several industries, businesses, and organizations in the field of data processing. Further, the classification may be supervised learning. Further, classification is the process of identifying the class/category of a given observation based on a classifier model. Further, the classifier model may be trained based on training with a set of observations with a known class.
Existing techniques for facilitating the determination of changes between a pair of regulatory documents are deficient with regard to several aspects. For instance, current technologies do not reliably determine a change associated with a complex document (such as a regulatory document) when compared to an earlier version of the complex document.
Therefore, there is a need for improved methods and systems for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents that may overcome one or more of the above-mentioned problems and/or limitations.
This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form, that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter. Nor is this summary intended to be used to limit the claimed subject matter's scope.
Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the method may include a step of receiving, using a communication device, a first regulatory document from at least one device. Further, the first regulatory document may be associated with a first structure. Further, the first structure may include a first layout of content of the first regulatory document. Further, the first layout may include at least one of a first indent and a first white space associated with portions of the first regulatory document. Further, the first regulatory document may be associated with a source format. Further, the method may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, a second regulatory document from the at least one device. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with a second structure. Further, the second structure may include a second layout of content of the second regulatory document. Further, the second layout may include at least one of a second indent and a second white space associated with portions of the second regulatory document. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with the source format. Further, the method may include a step of converting, using a processing device, the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document from the source format to a preferred format. Further, the method may include a step of analyzing, using the processing device, the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document of the preferred format based on the converting. Further, the method may include a step of identifying, using the processing device, a plurality of first portions of the first regulatory document and a plurality of second portions of the second regulatory document based on the analyzing. Further, the method may include a step of classifying, using the processing device, the plurality of first portions into a plurality of first classification codes using a first classifier model and the plurality of second portions into a plurality of second classification codes using the first classifier model based on the identifying. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions may be based on the at least one of the first indent and the first white space of the plurality of first portions. Further, the classifying of the plurality of second portions may be based on the at least one of the second indent and the second white space of the plurality of second portions. Further, the method may include a step of comparing, using the processing device, the plurality of first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying. Further, the method may include a step of determining, using the processing device, at least one change associated with at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions based on the comparing. Further, the method may include a step of associating, using the processing device, the at least one change to the at least one first portion based on the determining. Further, the method may include a step of generating, using the processing device, a combined annotated regulatory document based on the associating. Further, the method may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the combined annotated regulatory document to the at least one device. Further, the method may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the combined annotated regulatory document.
Further disclosed herein is a system for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the system may include a communication device configured for receiving a first regulatory document from at least one device. Further, the first regulatory document may be associated with a first structure. Further, the first structure may include a first layout of content of the first regulatory document. Further, the first layout may include at least one of a first indent and a first white space associated with portions of the first regulatory document. Further, the first regulatory document may be associated with a source format. Further, the communication device may be configured for receiving a second regulatory document from the at least one device. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with a second structure. Further, the second structure may include a second layout of content of the second regulatory document. Further, the second layout may include at least one of a second indent and a second white space associated with portions of the second regulatory document. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with the source format. Further, the communication device may be configured for transmitting a combined annotated regulatory document to the at least one device. Further, the system may include a processing device communicatively coupled with the communication device. Further, the processing device may be configured for converting the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document from the source format to a preferred format. Further, the processing device may be configured for analyzing the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document of the preferred format based on the converting. Further, the processing device may be configured for identifying a plurality of first portions of the first regulatory document and a plurality of second portions of the second regulatory document based on the analyzing. Further, the processing device may be configured for classifying the plurality of first portions into a plurality of first classification codes using a first classifier model and the plurality of second portions into a plurality of second classification codes using the first classifier model based on the identifying. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions may be based on the at least one of the first indent and the first white space of the plurality of first portions. Further, the classifying of the plurality of second portions may be based on the at least one of the second indent and the second white space of the plurality of second portions. Further, the processing device may be configured for comparing the plurality of first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying. Further, the processing device may be configured for determining at least one change associated with at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions based on the comparing. Further, the processing device may be configured for associating the at least one change to the at least one first portion based on the determining. Further, the processing device may be configured for generating the combined annotated regulatory document based on the associating. Further, the system may include a storage device communicatively coupled with the processing device. Further, the storage device may be configured for storing the combined annotated regulatory document.
Both the foregoing summary and the following detailed description provide examples and are explanatory only. Accordingly, the foregoing summary and the following detailed description should not be considered to be restrictive. Further, features or variations may be provided in addition to those set forth herein. For example, embodiments may be directed to various feature combinations and sub-combinations described in the detailed description.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this disclosure, illustrate various embodiments of the present disclosure. The drawings contain representations of various trademarks and copyrights owned by the Applicants. In addition, the drawings may contain other marks owned by third parties and are being used for illustrative purposes only. All rights to various trademarks and copyrights represented herein, except those belonging to their respective owners, are vested in and the property of the applicants. The applicants retain and reserve all rights in their trademarks and copyrights included herein, and grant permission to reproduce the material only in connection with reproduction of the granted patent and for no other purpose.
Furthermore, the drawings may contain text or captions that may explain certain embodiments of the present disclosure. This text is included for illustrative, non-limiting, explanatory purposes of certain embodiments detailed in the present disclosure.
As a preliminary matter, it will readily be understood by one having ordinary skill in the relevant art that the present disclosure has broad utility and application. As should be understood, any embodiment may incorporate only one or a plurality of the above-disclosed aspects of the disclosure and may further incorporate only one or a plurality of the above-disclosed features. Furthermore, any embodiment discussed and identified as being “preferred” is considered to be part of a best mode contemplated for carrying out the embodiments of the present disclosure. Other embodiments also may be discussed for additional illustrative purposes in providing a full and enabling disclosure. Moreover, many embodiments, such as adaptations, variations, modifications, and equivalent arrangements, will be implicitly disclosed by the embodiments described herein and fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
Accordingly, while embodiments are described herein in detail in relation to one or more embodiments, it is to be understood that this disclosure is illustrative and exemplary of the present disclosure, and are made merely for the purposes of providing a full and enabling disclosure. The detailed disclosure herein of one or more embodiments is not intended, nor is to be construed, to limit the scope of patent protection afforded in any claim of a patent issuing here from, which scope is to be defined by the claims and the equivalents thereof. It is not intended that the scope of patent protection be defined by reading into any claim limitation found herein and/or issuing here from that does not explicitly appear in the claim itself.
Thus, for example, any sequence(s) and/or temporal order of steps of various processes or methods that are described herein are illustrative and not restrictive. Accordingly, it should be understood that, although steps of various processes or methods may be shown and described as being in a sequence or temporal order, the steps of any such processes or methods are not limited to being carried out in any particular sequence or order, absent an indication otherwise. Indeed, the steps in such processes or methods generally may be carried out in various different sequences and orders while still falling within the scope of the present disclosure. Accordingly, it is intended that the scope of patent protection is to be defined by the issued claim(s) rather than the description set forth herein.
Additionally, it is important to note that each term used herein refers to that which an ordinary artisan would understand such term to mean based on the contextual use of such term herein. To the extent that the meaning of a term used herein—as understood by the ordinary artisan based on the contextual use of such term—differs in any way from any particular dictionary definition of such term, it is intended that the meaning of the term as understood by the ordinary artisan should prevail.
Furthermore, it is important to note that, as used herein, “a” and “an” each generally denotes “at least one,” but does not exclude a plurality unless the contextual use dictates otherwise. When used herein to join a list of items, “or” denotes “at least one of the items,” but does not exclude a plurality of items of the list. Finally, when used herein to join a list of items, “and” denotes “all of the items of the list.”
The following detailed description refers to the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the following description to refer to the same or similar elements. While many embodiments of the disclosure may be described, modifications, adaptations, and other implementations are possible. For example, substitutions, additions, or modifications may be made to the elements illustrated in the drawings, and the methods described herein may be modified by substituting, reordering, or adding stages to the disclosed methods. Accordingly, the following detailed description does not limit the disclosure. Instead, the proper scope of the disclosure is defined by the claims found herein and/or issuing here from. The present disclosure contains headers. It should be understood that these headers are used as references and are not to be construed as limiting upon the subjected matter disclosed under the header.
The present disclosure includes many aspects and features. Moreover, while many aspects and features relate to, and are described in the context of methods and systems for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to use only in this context.
In general, the method disclosed herein may be performed by one or more computing devices. For example, in some embodiments, the method may be performed by a server computer in communication with one or more client devices over a communication network such as, for example, the Internet. In some other embodiments, the method may be performed by one or more of at least one server computer, at least one client device, at least one network device, at least one sensor and at least one actuator. Examples of the one or more client devices and/or the server computer may include, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant, a portable electronic device, a wearable computer, a smart phone, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a smart electrical appliance, a video game console, a rack server, a super-computer, a mainframe computer, mini-computer, micro-computer, a storage server, an application server (e.g. a mail server, a web server, a real-time communication server, an FTP server, a virtual server, a proxy server, a DNS server etc.), a quantum computer, and so on. Further, one or more client devices and/or the server computer may be configured for executing a software application such as, for example, but not limited to, an operating system (e.g. Windows, Mac OS, Unix, Linux, Android, etc.) in order to provide a user interface (e.g. GUI, touch-screen based interface, voice based interface, gesture based interface etc.) for use by the one or more users and/or a network interface for communicating with other devices over a communication network. Accordingly, the server computer may include a processing device configured for performing data processing tasks such as, for example, but not limited to, analyzing, identifying, determining, generating, transforming, calculating, computing, compressing, decompressing, encrypting, decrypting, scrambling, splitting, merging, interpolating, extrapolating, redacting, anonymizing, encoding and decoding. Further, the server computer may include a communication device configured for communicating with one or more external devices. The one or more external devices may include, for example, but are not limited to, a client device, a third party database, public database, a private database and so on. Further, the communication device may be configured for communicating with the one or more external devices over one or more communication channels. Further, the one or more communication channels may include a wireless communication channel and/or a wired communication channel. Accordingly, the communication device may be configured for performing one or more of transmitting and receiving of information in electronic form. Further, the server computer may include a storage device configured for performing data storage and/or data retrieval operations. In general, the storage device may be configured for providing reliable storage of digital information. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the storage device may be based on technologies such as, but not limited to, data compression, data backup, data redundancy, deduplication, error correction, data finger-printing, role based access control, and so on.
Further, one or more steps of the method disclosed herein may be initiated, maintained, controlled and/or terminated based on a control input received from one or more devices operated by one or more users such as, for example, but not limited to, an end user, an admin, a service provider, a service consumer, an agent, a broker and a representative thereof. Further, the user as defined herein may refer to a human, an animal or an artificially intelligent being in any state of existence, unless stated otherwise, elsewhere in the present disclosure. Further, in some embodiments, the one or more users may be required to successfully perform authentication in order for the control input to be effective. In general, a user of the one or more users may perform authentication based on the possession of a secret human readable secret data (e.g. username, password, passphrase, PIN, secret question, secret answer etc.) and/or possession of a machine readable secret data (e.g. encryption key, decryption key, bar codes, etc.) and/or or possession of one or more embodied characteristics unique to the user (e.g. biometric variables such as, but not limited to, fingerprint, palm-print, voice characteristics, behavioral characteristics, facial features, iris pattern, heart rate variability, evoked potentials, brain waves, and so on) and/or possession of a unique device (e.g. a device with a unique physical and/or chemical and/or biological characteristic, a hardware device with a unique serial number, a network device with a unique IP/MAC address, a telephone with a unique phone number, a smartcard with an authentication token stored thereupon, etc.). Accordingly, the one or more steps of the method may include communicating (e.g. transmitting and/or receiving) with one or more sensor devices and/or one or more actuators in order to perform authentication. For example, the one or more steps may include receiving, using the communication device, the secret human readable data from an input device such as, for example, a keyboard, a keypad, a touch-screen, a microphone, a camera and so on. Likewise, the one or more steps may include receiving, using the communication device, the one or more embodied characteristics from one or more biometric sensors.
Further, one or more steps of the method may be automatically initiated, maintained and/or terminated based on one or more predefined conditions. In an instance, the one or more predefined conditions may be based on one or more contextual variables. In general, the one or more contextual variables may represent a condition relevant to the performance of the one or more steps of the method. The one or more contextual variables may include, for example, but are not limited to, location, time, identity of a user associated with a device (e.g. the server computer, a client device etc.) corresponding to the performance of the one or more steps, and/or semantic content of data associated with the one or more users. Accordingly, the one or more steps may include communicating with one or more sensors and/or one or more actuators associated with the one or more contextual variables. For example, the one or more sensors may include, but are not limited to, a timing device (e.g. a real-time clock), a location sensor (e.g. a GPS receiver, a GLONASS receiver, an indoor location sensor etc.), a biometric sensor (e.g. a fingerprint sensor), and a device state sensor (e.g. a power sensor, a voltage/current sensor, a switch-state sensor, a usage sensor, etc. associated with the device corresponding to performance of the or more steps).
Further, the one or more steps of the method may be performed one or more number of times. Additionally, the one or more steps may be performed in any order other than as exemplarily disclosed herein, unless explicitly stated otherwise, elsewhere in the present disclosure. Further, two or more steps of the one or more steps may, in some embodiments, be simultaneously performed, at least in part. Further, in some embodiments, there may be one or more time gaps between performance of any two steps of the one or more steps.
Further, in some embodiments, the one or more predefined conditions may be specified by the one or more users. Accordingly, the one or more steps may include receiving, using the communication device, the one or more predefined conditions from one or more and devices operated by the one or more users. Further, the one or more predefined conditions may be stored in the storage device. Alternatively, and/or additionally, in some embodiments, the one or more predefined conditions may be automatically determined, using the processing device, based on historical data corresponding to performance of the one or more steps. For example, the historical data may be collected, using the storage device, from a plurality of instances of performance of the method. Such historical data may include performance actions (e.g. initiating, maintaining, interrupting, terminating, etc.) of the one or more steps and/or the one or more contextual variables associated therewith. Further, machine learning may be performed on the historical data in order to determine the one or more predefined conditions. For instance, machine learning on the historical data may determine a correlation between one or more contextual variables and performance of the one or more steps of the method. Accordingly, the one or more predefined conditions may be generated, using the processing device, based on the correlation.
Further, one or more steps of the method may be performed at one or more spatial locations. For instance, the method may be performed by a plurality of devices interconnected through a communication network. Accordingly, in an example, one or more steps of the method may be performed by a server computer. Similarly, one or more steps of the method may be performed by a client computer. Likewise, one or more steps of the method may be performed by an intermediate entity such as, for example, a proxy server. For instance, one or more steps of the method may be performed in a distributed fashion across the plurality of devices in order to meet one or more objectives. For example, one objective may be to provide load balancing between two or more devices. Another objective may be to restrict a location of one or more of an input data, an output data and any intermediate data therebetween corresponding to one or more steps of the method. For example, in a client-server environment, sensitive data corresponding to a user may not be allowed to be transmitted to the server computer. Accordingly, one or more steps of the method operating on the sensitive data and/or a derivative thereof may be performed at the client device.
Overview:
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for facilitating determination of differences between a pair of regulatory documents. Further, the disclosed system may facilitate the determination of changes between a pair of regulatory documents. Further, the disclosed system may automatically determine the differences/changes between two versions of regulatory documents and producing a unified document representing the combined document using Machine Learning (ML) based sentencification. Further, the pair of regulatory documents may be compared to identify the changes/additions. Further, the result may be rendered into a newly created (unified) sentencified document that represents the combined changes/deletions between the pair of regulatory documents. Further, the regulatory document is complex in structure. Further, the structure of the regulatory document may include a layout that may include white spaces and indentations that may be significant for the regulatory document.
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A user 112, such as the one or more relevant parties, may access online platform 100 through a web based software application or browser. The web based software application may be embodied as, for example, but not be limited to, a website, a web application, a desktop application, and a mobile application compatible with a computing device 1800.
Further, the system 200 may include a processing device 204 communicatively coupled with the communication device 202. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for converting the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document from the source format to a preferred format. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for analyzing the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document of the preferred format based on the converting. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for identifying a plurality of first portions of the first regulatory document and a plurality of second portions of the second regulatory document based on the analyzing. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for classifying the plurality of first portions into a plurality of first classification codes using a first classifier model and the plurality of second portions into a plurality of second classification codes using the first classifier model based on the identifying. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions may be based on the at least one of the first indent and the first white space of the plurality of first portions. Further, the classifying of the plurality of second portions may be based on the at least one of the second indent and the second white space of the plurality of second portions. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for comparing the plurality of first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for determining at least one change associated with at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions based on the comparing. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for associating the at least one change to the at least one first portion based on the determining. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for generating the combined annotated regulatory document based on the associating.
Further, the system 200 may include a storage device 206 communicatively coupled with the processing device 204. Further, the storage device 206 may be configured for storing the combined annotated regulatory document.
Further, in some embodiments, the at least one change may include a modification in the content of the first regulatory document in relation to the second regulatory document. Further, the modification may include at least one of an addition and a deletion of a new portion from the first regulatory document.
Further, in some embodiments, the associating may include establishing a relationship of the at least one change with the at least one first portion. Further, the generating of the combined annotated regulatory document may be based on the establishing.
Further, in some embodiments, the processing device 204 may be configured for identifying at least one second portion of the plurality of second portions associated with the at least one change based on the associating. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for integrating the at least one second portion with the at least one first portion based on the identifying of the at least one second portion. Further, the generating of the combined annotated regulatory document may be based on the integrating.
Further, in some embodiments, the processing device 204 may be configured for classifying the plurality of first portions into a plurality of secondary first classification codes using a second classifier model and the plurality of second portions into a plurality of secondary second classification codes using the second classifier model based on the identifying. Further, the plurality of secondary first classification codes and the plurality of secondary second classification codes may include at least one of rights, violations, obligations, liabilities, exceptions, constraints, penalties, and respondents. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for comparing the plurality of secondary first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of secondary second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying of the plurality of first portions into the plurality of secondary first classification codes and the plurality of second portions into the plurality of secondary second classification codes. Further, the determining of the at least one change associated with the at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions may be further based on the comparing the plurality of secondary first classification codes with the plurality of secondary second classification codes.
Further, in some embodiments, the plurality of first classification codes and the plurality of second classification codes may include at least two of a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-section heading, and a sub-section.
Further, in some embodiments, the first white space and the second white space may include one or more characters representing at least one of a horizontal space and a vertical space in a typography of the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document
Further, in some embodiments, the communication device 202 may be configured for transmitting the plurality of first portions, the plurality of first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions, the plurality of second portions, and the plurality of second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions to the at least one device. Further, the communication device 202 may be configured for receiving at least one feedback associated with at least one of at least one first classification code and at least one second classification code from the at least one device. Further, the at least one first classification code may be associated with at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions and the at least one second classification code may be associated with at least one second portion of the plurality of second portions. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for modifying the at least one of the at least one first classification code of the at least one first portion and the at least one second classification code of the at least one second portion based on the at least one feedback. Further, the comparing of the plurality of first classification codes with the plurality of second classification codes may be based on the modifying.
Further, in some embodiments, the communication device 202 may be configured for receiving a plurality of regulatory document corpus from a plurality of document source devices. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for analyzing the plurality of regulatory document corpus. Further, the processing device 204 may be configured for generating a plurality of first classifier models based on the analyzing of the plurality of regulatory document corpus. Further, the storage device 206 may be configured for storing the plurality of first classifier models.
Further, in some embodiments, the processing device 204 may be configured for identifying the first classifier model of the plurality of first classifier models based on the first structure of the first regulatory document and the second structure of the second regulatory document. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions using the first classifier model into the plurality of first classification codes and the classifying of the plurality of second portions and using the first classifier model into the plurality of second classification codes may be based on the identifying of the first classifier model.
Further, at 304, the method 300 may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, a second regulatory document from the at least one device. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with a second structure. Further, the second structure may include a second layout of content of the second regulatory document. Further, the second layout may include at least one of a second indent and a second white space associated with portions of the second regulatory document. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with the source format. Further, the content of the first regulatory document may include textual content. Further, the first indent may include a textual indent associated with the content. Further, the content of the second regulatory document comprise textual content. Further, the second indent may include a textual indent associated with the content of the second regulatory document.
Further, at 306, the method 300 may include a step of converting, using a processing device, the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document from the source format to a preferred format.
Further, at 308, the method 300 may include a step of analyzing, using the processing device, the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document of the preferred format based on the converting.
Further, at 310, the method 300 may include a step of identifying, using the processing device, a plurality of first portions of the first regulatory document and a plurality of second portions of the second regulatory document based on the analyzing.
Further, at 312, the method 300 may include a step of classifying, using the processing device, the plurality of first portions into a plurality of first classification codes using a first classifier model and the plurality of second portions into a plurality of second classification codes using the first classifier model based on the identifying. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions may be based on the at least one of the first indent and the first white space of the plurality of first portions. Further, the classifying of the plurality of second portions may be based on the at least one of the second indent and the second white space of the plurality of second portions.
Further, at 314, the method 300 may include a step of comparing, using the processing device, the plurality of first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying.
Further, at 316, the method 300 may include a step of determining, using the processing device, at least one change associated with at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions based on the comparing.
Further, at 318, the method 300 may include a step of associating, using the processing device, the at least one change to the at least one first portion based on the determining.
Further, at 320, the method 300 may include a step of generating, using the processing device, a combined annotated regulatory document based on the associating.
Further, at 322, the method 300 may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the combined annotated regulatory document to the at least one device.
Further, at 324, the method 300 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the combined annotated regulatory document.
Further, in some embodiments, the at least one change may include a modification in the content of the first regulatory document in relation to the second regulatory document. Further, the modification may include at least one of an addition and a deletion of a new portion from the first regulatory document.
Further, in some embodiments, the associating may include establishing a relationship of the at least one change with the at least one first portion. Further, the generating of the combined annotated regulatory document may be based on the establishing.
Further, in some embodiments, the plurality of first classification codes and the plurality of second classification codes may include at least two of a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-section heading, and a sub-section.
Further, in some embodiments, the first white space and the second white space may include one or more characters representing at least one of a horizontal space and a vertical space in a typography of the first regulatory document and the second regulatory document.
Further, at 404, the method 400 may include a step of integrating, using the processing device, the at least one second portion with the at least one first portion based on the identifying of the at least one second portion. Further, the generating of the combined annotated regulatory document may be based on the integrating.
Further, at 504, the method 500 may include a step of comparing, using the processing device, the plurality of secondary first classification codes associated with the plurality of first portions with the plurality of secondary second classification codes associated with the plurality of second portions based on the classifying of the plurality of first portions into the plurality of secondary first classification codes and the plurality of second portions into the plurality of secondary second classification codes. Further, the determining of the at least one change associated with the at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions may be further based on the comparing the plurality of secondary first classification codes with the plurality of secondary second classification codes.
Further, at 604, the method 600 may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, at least one feedback associated with at least one of at least one first classification code and at least one second classification code from the at least one device. Further, the at least one first classification code may be associated with the at least one first portion of the plurality of first portions and the at least one second classification code may be associated with at least one second portion of the plurality of second portions.
Further, at 606, the method 600 may include a step of modifying, using the processing device, the at least one of the at least one first classification code of the at least one first portion and the at least one second classification code of the at least one second portion based on the at least one feedback. Further, the comparing of the plurality of first classification codes with the plurality of second classification codes may be based on the modifying.
Further, at 704, the method 700 may include a step of analyzing, using the processing device, the plurality of regulatory document corpus.
Further, at 706, the method 700 may include a step of generating, using the processing device, a plurality of first classifier models based on the analyzing of the plurality of regulatory document corpus.
Further, at 708, the method 700 may include a step of storing, using the storage device, the plurality of first classifier models.
Further, the method 700 may include a step of identifying, using the processing device, the first classifier model of the plurality of first classifier models based on the first structure of the first regulatory document and the second structure of the second regulatory document. Further, the classifying of the plurality of first portions using the first classifier model into the plurality of first classification codes and the classifying of the plurality of second portions and using the first classifier model into the plurality of second classification codes may be based on the identifying of the first classifier model.
Further, at 804, the method 800 may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, a second annotated regulatory document from the document source device, wherein the second annotated source document comprises at least one classification code corresponding to at least one portion of the second annotated regulatory document. Further, the second annotated regulatory document may include a latest version of a regulatory document with the at least one classification code corresponding to the at least one portion. Further, the at least one portion may include a word, a sentence, a paragraph. Further, the at least one portion may include a title, a section, a section heading, a sub-section heading, and a sub-section. Further, the at least one classification code may include an obligation, an exception, a right, a constraint, an enforcement action violation, a penalty (currency), a respondent (business/entity), etc. Further, in another embodiment, the at least one classification code may include a title, a section, a section heading, a sub-section heading, and a sub-section corresponding to the at least one portion. Further, the second annotated regulatory document may be associated with a regulatory authority. Further, the regulatory authority may include an institution and an organization that may enforce regulations associated with occupation, health, safety, technology, etc. Further, the second annotated regulatory document may include a dossier, an application, a modification, a filing, and so on. Further, the second annotated regulatory document may be associated with a structure. Further, the structure may include a layout of textual content. Further, the layout may include text indentation of the second annotated regulatory document. Further, the document source device may be associated with the regulatory authority. Further, the document source device may include a document repository (such as a server, a database). Further, the document source device may include a smartphone, a mobile, a tablet, a laptop, a computer, and so on. Further, the user may include an individual, an institution, and an organization that may own the second annotated regulatory document.
Further, at 806, the method 800 may include a step of comparing, using the processing device, the first annotated regulatory document and the second annotated regulatory document based on the at least one classification code. Further, the at least one classification code corresponding to the at least one portion. Further, comparing the first annotated regulatory document and the second annotated regulatory document may facilitate identification of a modification that may have been made to the second annotated regulatory document. Further, the modification may be made by the regulatory authority corresponding to the first annotated regulatory document. Further, the at least one classification code corresponding to the first annotated regulatory document may be compared with the at least one classification code corresponding to the second annotated regulatory document to identify the modification.
Further, at 808, the method 800 may include a step of determining, using the processing device, at least one change corresponding to at least one portion of the first annotated regulatory document based on the comparing. Further, comparing the first annotated regulatory document and the second annotated regulatory document may facilitate identification of the at least one change that may have been made to modify the second annotated regulatory document. Further, the at least one change may include modification of textual content, addition/deletion of a new portion, etc.
Further, at 810, the method 800 may include a step of associating, using the processing device, the at least one change with the at least one portion. Further, the at least one portion. Further, associating the at least one change with the at least one portion may include establishing a relationship of the at least one change with the at least one portion. Further, associating the at least one change with the at least one portion may facilitate identification of the at least one change associated with the second annotated regulatory document.
Further, at 812, the method 800 may include a step of generating, using the processing device, a combined regulatory document based on the associating. Further, the combined regulatory document may include the first annotated regulatory document and the second annotated regulatory document with the at least one change corresponding to the at least one portion.
Further, at 814, the method 800 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the combined regulatory document in a database.
Further, at 816, the method 800 may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the combined regulatory document to the document source device.
Further, at 904, the method 900 may include a step of converting, using a processing device, the regulatory document from a source format to a preferred format. Further, the regulatory document may be associated with the source format. Further, the source format may include a .PDF, .CSV, etc. Further, the preferred format may include a format that may be compatible for processing by the processing device, Further, the preferred format may include a .HTML, .DOC, etc.
Further, at 906, the method 900 may include a step of training, using the processing device, the classifier model based on a sample corpus of regulatory documents. Further, the sample corpus of regulatory document may include a collection of regulatory documents associated with the regulatory authority. Further, the classifier model may include a machine learning model that may be configured for classifying the sample corpus of regulatory documents. Further, the classifier model may include a decision tree, a random forest, a gradient-boosted tree, a multilayer perceptron, a one-vs-rest, a Naive Bayes, etc. Further, the classifier model may be trained upon using machine learning algorithms. Further, the machine learning algorithms may include a set of instructions that may be executed by the processing device to train the classifier model.
Further, at 908, the method 900 may include a step of classifying, using the processing device, a plurality of portions of the regulatory document based on a classifier model. Further, the plurality of portions comprises a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-section heading, a sub-section. Further, the plurality of portions may include a word, a sentence, and a paragraph. Further, the at least one of the title, the section heading, the section, the sub-section heading, and the sub-section is characterized by one or more co-located white-spaces. Further, the white spaces may include one or more characters that may represent horizontal or vertical spaces in typography. Further, the one or more characters may include space characters, return characters, etc.
Further, at 910, the method 900 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the regulatory document in association with a plurality of classification codes corresponding to the plurality of portions. Further, the plurality of classification codes may include a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-section heading, and a sub-section of the regulatory document that may be classified by the classifier model.
Further, at 1004, the method 1000 may include a step of classifying, using a processing device, the annotated regulatory document using a second classifier model. Further, a plurality of second classification codes is associated with the plurality of portions based on the classifying based on the second classifier model. Further, the plurality of second classification codes may include enforcement action violations, penalties (currency), respondents (business/entity), etc. Further, the second classifier model may include a machine learning model that may be configured for classifying the sample corpus of the regulatory documents. Further, the second classifier model may include a decision tree, a random forest, a gradient-boosted tree, a multilayer perceptron, a one-vs-rest, a Naive Bayes, etc. Further, the second classifier model may be trained upon using machine learning algorithms. Further, the machine learning algorithms may include a set of instructions that may be executed by the processing device to train the second classifier model. Further, the classification of the annotated regulatory document may be based on the first classification codes generated by the first classifier model.
Further, at 1006, the method 1000 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the annotated regulatory document in association with each of the plurality of first classification codes and the plurality of second classification codes in a database.
Further, at 1104, the method 1100 may include a step of generating, using the processing device, a plurality of visual indicators corresponding to the plurality of classification codes. Further, rendering of the plurality of portions is based on the plurality of visual indicators. Further, the plurality of visual indicators may include colored text, highlighted text, animated text, text font characteristics, etc. Further, the text font characteristics may include a bold character, an italicized character, an underline character, etc.
Further, at 1106, the method 1100 may include a step of transmitting, using a communication device, the annotated regulatory document and the plurality of visual indicators to a user device. Further, the user device may be associated with a user. Further, the user may include an individual, an institution, and an organization that may want to receive the annotated regulatory document and the plurality of visual indicators. Further, the user device may include a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, a personal computer, and so on.
Further, at 1108, the method 1100 may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, at least one feedback from the user device. Further, the at least one feedback may include a modifying/updating at least one annotation of the plurality of the annotations.
Further, at 1110, the method 1100 may include a step of modifying, using the processing device, at least one annotation in the annotated regulatory document based on the at least one feedback.
Further, at 1112, the method 1100 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, a modified annotated regulatory document based on the modifying.
Further, at 1114, the method 1100 may include a step of retraining, using the processing device, the classifier model based on the at least one feedback. Further, the classifier model may be trained for classifying the plurality of portions based on the at least one feedback. Further, retraining of the classifier model may correspond to more accurate classification of the plurality of portions of the regulatory document.
Further, at 1204, the method 1200 may include a step of analyzing, using the processing device, the plurality of regulatory document corpus to generate a plurality of classifier models. Further, the plurality of regulatory document corpus may be analyzed using machine learning algorithms. Further, the machine learning algorithms may include a set of instructions to facilitate the analysis of the plurality of regulatory document corpus. Further, the analysis of the regulatory document corpus may facilitate the generation of a classifier model corresponding to the regulatory authority. Further, a classifier model of the plurality of classifier models may be configured for classifying the plurality of regulatory document corpus. Further, the classifier model may include a decision tree, a random forest, a gradient-boosted tree, a multilayer perceptron, a one-vs-rest, a Naive Bayes, etc.
Further, at 1206, the method 1200 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the plurality of classifier models in a database.
Further, at 1208, the method 1200 may include a step of receiving, using a communication device, a second regulatory document corresponding to a set of regulatory documents from a document source device. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with a regulatory authority. Further, the regulatory second document may include a dossier, an application, a modification, a filing, and so on. Further, the second regulatory document may be associated with a structure. Further, the structure may include a layout of textual content. Further, the layout may be associated with a text indentation of the regulatory document. Further, the regulatory authority may include an institution and an organization that may enforce regulations associated with occupation, health, safety, technology, etc. Further, the document source device may be associated with the regulatory authority that may include a document repository (such as a server, a database, etc.). Further, the document source device may include a smartphone, a mobile, a tablet, a laptop, a computer, and so on that may be used by a user to upload the regulatory document. Further, the user may include an individual, an institution, and an organization that may want to classify the regulatory document. Further, the set of regulatory documents may include a plurality of regulatory documents that may be associated with particular regulatory authority.
Further, at 1210, the method 1200 may include a step of identifying, using a processing device, a suitable classifier model corresponding to the regulatory document from the plurality of classifier models. Further, the suitable classifier model may facilitate the classification of the content of the regulatory document associated with the regulatory authority.
Further, at 1212, the method 1200 may include a step of classifying, using the processing device, a plurality of portions of the regulatory document based on the suitable classifier model. Further, the plurality of portions comprises a title, a section heading, a section, a section heading, a subsection heading, and a sub-section. Further, at least one of the title, the section heading, the section, the sub-section heading, and the sub-section is characterized by one or more co-located white-spaces. Further, the white spaces may include one or more characters that may represent horizontal or verticals spaces in typography. Further, the one or more characters may include space characters, return characters, etc.
Further, at 1214, the method 1200 may include a step of storing, using a storage device, the regulatory document in association with a plurality of classification codes corresponding to the plurality of portions. Further, the plurality of classification codes may include enforcement action violations, penalties (currency), respondents (business/entity), etc. of the regulatory document that may be classified by the suitable classifier model.
Further, at 1304, the method 1300 may include a step of receiving, using a communication device, a base classifier model from a model source device. Further, the base classifier model may include a machine learning model that may be configured for classifying the regulatory document. Further, the base classifier model may include a decision tree, a random forest, a gradient-boosted tree, a multilayer perceptron, a one-vs-rest, a Naive Bayes, etc. Further, the base classifier model may be trained upon using machine learning algorithms. Further, the machine learning algorithms may include a set of instructions that may be executed by the processing device to train the classifier model. Further, the model source device may include a database, a server, etc. that may be configured to store the base classifier model.
Further, at 1306, the method 1300 may include a step of classifying, using a processing device, the regulatory document based on the base classifier model. Further, the regulatory document may include a plurality of portions. Further, the plurality of portions may include a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-heading section, and a sub-section. Further, at least one of the title, the section heading, the section, and the sub-section may be characterized by one or more co-located white-spaces. Further, the white spaces may include one or more characters that may represent horizontal or vertical spaces in typography. Further, the one or more characters may include space characters, return characters, etc. Further, classifying the regulatory document may include classifying the plurality of portions of the regulatory document.
Further, at 1308, the method 1300 may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, an annotated regulatory document to a user device associated with a user. Further, the annotated regulatory document may include a plurality of annotations corresponding to the plurality of portions. Further, the plurality of annotations may include a plurality of classification codes corresponding to a respective portion of the plurality of the portions. Further, the plurality of classification codes may be assigned by the regulatory authority to the regulatory document. Further, the plurality of classification codes may include enforcement action violations, penalties (currency), respondents (business/entity), etc. Further, in another embodiment, the classification codes may include titles, section headings, sections, sub-section headings, and sub-sections. Further, the user device may include a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, a personal computer, and so on. Further, the user may include an individual, an institution, and an organization that may want to classify the regulatory document.
Further, at 1310, the method 1300 may include a step of receiving, using the communication device, at least one feedback corresponding to the annotated regulatory document from the user device. Further, the at least one feedback may include a modification associated with the classification code corresponding to the respective portion.
Further, at 1312, the method 1300 may include a step of modifying, using the processing device, the base classifier model based on the at least one feedback to generate a refined classifier model. Further, the refined classifier model may be configured to classify the regulatory document more accurately as compared to the base classifier model.
Further, at 1314, the method 1300 may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the refined classifier model to the model source device.
Further, at 1404, the method 1400 may include the conversion of the regulatory document into a HTML format. Further, at 1406, the method 1400 may include preprocessing the HTML regulatory document to generate a processed HTML regulatory document.
Further, at 1408, the method 1400 may include classification of the preprocessed HTML regulatory document to generate a predicted HTML regulatory document. Further, the generation of predicted HTML regulatory document may include classifying a plurality of portions of the processed HTML document and assigning at least one classification code to the plurality of portions. Further, the plurality of portions may include a sentence, paragraph. Further, the at least one classification code may include a title, a section heading, a section, a sub-section, and a sub-section. Further, at least one of the paragraph may be characterized by one or more co-located white-spaces.
Further, at 1410, the method 1400 may include a step of post-processing the predicted HTML regulatory document.
Further, at 1412, the method 1400 may include a step of tokenization that may break the plurality of portions of the predicted HTML regulatory document into smaller meaningful elements such as sentences.
Further, at 1414, the method 1400 may include storing the predicted HTML regulatory document and the sentences.
Further, at 1504, the method 1500 may include receiving the predicted HTML regulatory document with highlighted predicted labels associated with a plurality of portions of the predicted HTML regulatory document. Further, the plurality of portions may include a title, a section, a section heading, a sub-section heading, a sub-section, etc. Further, the highlighted predicted labels may include predicated labels that may be highlighted. Further, the predicted labels may be associated with the plurality of portions.
Further, after 1502, at 1506, the method 1500 may include the predicted HTML regulatory document converted to annotation CSV with predicted labels.
Further, at 1508, the method 1500 may include a step of receiving updates associated with the highlighted predicted labels based on visual highlighting.
Further, at 1510, the method 1500 may include a step of generating annotation CSV with annotated labels associated with a user. Further, the user may include an individual, an institution, and an organization that may want to update the highlighted predicted labels.
Further, at 1512, the method 1500 may include a step of overwriting highlighted predicted labels with annotated labels.
Further, at 1514, the method 1500 may include a step of generating an annotated HTML document. Further, the annotated HTML document may include the annotated labels.
Further, the method 1600 may include a step of classifying the plurality of portions of the processed HTML document based on the suitable classifier. Further, classifying the plurality of portions may include generating one or more labels 1616-1620 corresponding to a respective portion. Further, the one or more labels 1616-1620 may include obligations, exceptions, rights, constraints, enforcement action violations, penalties (currency), respondents (business/entity), etc.
Further, at 1622, the method 1600 may include a step of generating a predicted HTML document corresponding to the processed HTML document. Further, the predicted HTML document may include the one or more labels 1616-1620 associated with the plurality of portions of the processed HTML document corresponding to the predicted HTML document. Further, the one or more labels 1616-1620 may be the plurality of secondary first classification codes the plurality of secondary second classification codes.
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Computing device 1800 may have additional features or functionality. For example, computing device 1800 may also include additional data storage devices (removable and/or non-removable) such as, for example, magnetic disks, optical disks, or tape. Such additional storage is illustrated in
Computing device 1800 may also contain a communication connection 1816 that may allow device 1800 to communicate with other computing devices 1818, such as over a network in a distributed computing environment, for example, an intranet or the Internet. Communication connection 1816 is one example of communication media. Communication media may typically be embodied by computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism, and includes any information delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” may describe a signal that has one or more characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media may include wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, radio frequency (RF), infrared, and other wireless media. The term computer readable media as used herein may include both storage media and communication media.
As stated above, a number of program modules and data files may be stored in system memory 1804, including operating system 1805. While executing on processing unit 1802, programming modules 1806 (e.g., application 1820 such as a media player) may perform processes including, for example, one or more stages of methods, algorithms, systems, applications, servers, databases as described above. The aforementioned process is an example, and processing unit 1802 may perform other processes. Other programming modules that may be used in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure may include machine learning applications.
Generally, consistent with embodiments of the disclosure, program modules may include routines, programs, components, data structures, and other types of structures that may perform particular tasks or that may implement particular abstract data types. Moreover, embodiments of the disclosure may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including hand-held devices, general purpose graphics processor-based systems, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, application specific integrated circuit-based electronics, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like. Embodiments of the disclosure may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.
Furthermore, embodiments of the disclosure may be practiced in an electrical circuit comprising discrete electronic elements, packaged or integrated electronic chips containing logic gates, a circuit utilizing a microprocessor, or on a single chip containing electronic elements or microprocessors. Embodiments of the disclosure may also be practiced using other technologies capable of performing logical operations such as, for example, AND, OR, and NOT, including but not limited to mechanical, optical, fluidic, and quantum technologies. In addition, embodiments of the disclosure may be practiced within a general-purpose computer or in any other circuits or systems.
Embodiments of the disclosure, for example, may be implemented as a computer process (method), a computing system, or as an article of manufacture, such as a computer program product or computer readable media. The computer program product may be a computer storage media readable by a computer system and encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer process. The computer program product may also be a propagated signal on a carrier readable by a computing system and encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer process. Accordingly, the present disclosure may be embodied in hardware and/or in software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.). In other words, embodiments of the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product on a computer-usable or computer-readable storage medium having computer-usable or computer-readable program code embodied in the medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system. A computer-usable or computer-readable medium may be any medium that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
The computer-usable or computer-readable medium may be, for example but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, device, or propagation medium. More specific computer-readable medium examples (a non-exhaustive list), the computer-readable medium may include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a random-access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM). Note that the computer-usable or computer-readable medium could even be paper or another suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program can be electronically captured, via, for instance, optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted, or otherwise processed in a suitable manner, if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory.
Embodiments of the present disclosure, for example, are described above with reference to block diagrams and/or operational illustrations of methods, systems, and computer program products according to embodiments of the disclosure. The functions/acts noted in the blocks may occur out of the order as shown in any flowchart. For example, two blocks shown in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality/acts involved.
While certain embodiments of the disclosure have been described, other embodiments may exist. Furthermore, although embodiments of the present disclosure have been described as being associated with data stored in memory and other storage mediums, data can also be stored on or read from other types of computer-readable media, such as secondary storage devices, like hard disks, solid state storage (e.g., USB drive), or a CD-ROM, a carrier wave from the Internet, or other forms of RAM or ROM. Further, the disclosed methods' stages may be modified in any manner, including by reordering stages and/or inserting or deleting stages, without departing from the disclosure.
Although the present disclosure has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure.
The current application claims a priority to the U.S. Provisional Patent application Ser. No. 62/957,571 filed on Jan. 6, 2020.
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