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Integrating natural language and formal analysis for legal documents
Although much research has gone into natural language legal document analysis, practical solutions to support legal document drafting
and reasoning are still limited in number and functionality. However given the textual basis of law there is much potential for NLP
techniques to aid in the context of drafting legal documents, in particular contracts. Furthermore, there is a body of work focusing on
the formal semantics of norms and legal notions which has direct applications in analysis of such documents. In this paper we present
our attempt to use several off-the-shelf NLP techniques to provide a more intelligent contract editing tool to lawyers. We exploit these
techniques to extract information from contract clauses to allow intelligent browsing of the contract. We use this surface analysis to
bridge the gap between the English text of a contract to its formal representation, which is then amenable to automated deduction,
specifically it allows us to identify conflicts in the contract.peer-reviewe