AI Document Analysis for Regulatory Action Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity and volume of regulatory directives, legal contracts, and other documents make it difficult for businesses to extract actionable items, leading to time-consuming and costly manual interpretation with potential inconsistencies.

Innovation Solution

A system and method using AI to automatically interpret documents by extracting actionable items, identifying topic phrases, clustering, labeling, and assigning them to responsible parties, leveraging techniques like k-means clustering and TF-IDF models to reduce manual effort and ensure accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual interpretation of regulatory documents is performed, then actionable items can be extracted, but the process is time-consuming and expensive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveextraction accuracyVSAvoidinterpretation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual interpretation process with an automated AI-based system that uses natural language processing, machine learning models, and algorithms to extract actionable items from regulatory documents, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual review while maintaining extraction accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary AI processing layer between the regulatory documents and the responsible parties, which automatically analyzes the documents, identifies actionable items, and assigns them to appropriate personnel, thus bridging the gap without requiring direct manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If manual interpretation of regulatory documents is performed, then actionable items can be identified, but costs increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification reliabilityVSAvoidinterpretation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent substitutes expensive manual expert interpretation with an automated AI system that processes regulatory documents at a fraction of the cost, using machine learning models trained on regulatory language to reliably identify actionable items without requiring human expert involvement for each document

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables the document interpretation process to serve itself through automated AI analysis, where the system independently processes regulatory documents, extracts actionable items, and assigns them without requiring external human resources, thereby eliminating the high costs associated with manual expert review

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If manual interpretation is used, then actionable items can be extracted, but inconsistencies occur in interpretation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveextraction efficiencyVSAvoidinterpretation consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies homogeneity by using a standardized AI-based interpretation approach across all regulatory documents, ensuring that the same rules, algorithms, and criteria are consistently applied to every document, thereby eliminating the variability and inconsistencies that arise from different human interpreters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #33Homogeneity

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the variable human interpretation process with a consistent automated AI system that applies the same logical rules and analysis methods uniformly across all documents, ensuring interpretation consistency while maintaining high extraction efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Loss of information

If voluminous regulatory documents are analyzed manually, then comprehensive understanding can be achieved, but the complexity makes it difficult to distill actionable items

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddocument complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential actionable items from voluminous regulatory documents using AI-based natural language processing, identifying and extracting key requirements, obligations, and compliance actions while filtering out unnecessary verbose language, thus maintaining information completeness while simplifying the output

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses automated AI analysis to process complex voluminous regulatory documents, employing machine learning models trained to understand regulatory language structures, identify actionable content, and distill it into clear assignments, thereby managing document complexity while ensuring no critical information is lost

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11314938B2Extracting actionable items from documents and assigning the actionable items to responsible parties
Publication Date: 2022.04.26 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

A method and system of automatically interpreting documents relating to regulatory directives to automatically identify actionable items and assigning each of the actionable items identified to the appropriate responsible party in a business.