Unified Contract View for Multi-Document Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of integrating main contracts and change documents, such as amendments, poses challenges due to their distinct structures, making it difficult for computing systems to accurately understand and apply changes, especially when change documents lack full context and information.
Innovation Solution
An integrated reading experience is generated by building a hierarchy of the main contract and identifying change instructions within the change document, allowing for the creation of a unified contract view that shows the main contract as modified by the change documents, eliminating the need for users to navigate between multiple documents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users manually reference multiple documents to understand modified contract terms, then complete information is available, but time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the main contract and change documents into a single unified view that displays both the original contract terms and the modifications together. This integration allows users to understand the complete contract information without manually referencing multiple separate documents, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically retrieves, parses, and integrates information from multiple documents (main contract and change documents). This intermediary automatically combines the information in a unified display, eliminating the need for users to manually cross-reference documents while ensuring complete and accurate information presentation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If change documents are used to modify contracts, then contract flexibility and adaptability improve, but document structure complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service functionality where the integration process is automatically performed by the system without requiring user intervention. The system autonomously retrieves change documents, parses modification instructions, identifies target clauses in the main contract, and generates the unified view automatically. This automation reduces the perceived complexity for users while maintaining high adaptability for contract modifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces the manual mechanical process of document integration with an automated computational system. Instead of users manually comparing and merging documents, the system uses natural language processing and document parsing algorithms to automatically integrate the main contract and change documents, thereby reducing integration complexity while preserving contract flexibility.
3Ease of manufacture
If change documents lack full context and information, then document brevity and ease of creation improve, but accuracy of understanding and application of changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically retrieving and analyzing the main contract before processing change documents. It pre-identifies relevant clauses, sections, and contextual information that will be needed to accurately interpret the changes. This preliminary preparation ensures that even brief change documents can be accurately understood and applied by leveraging the pre-fetched context from the main contract.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the parsed change instructions are cross-referenced with the main contract context, and any ambiguities or missing information are automatically resolved by querying the original document. This feedback loop ensures accurate interpretation of changes even when change documents are brief, as the system continuously verifies and supplements information from the main contract.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the technology described herein provide a method for generating a unified contract view. The method identifies, within a contract change document, a change instruction for a main contract. The change instruction includes a change introduction and a change content. The method determines an editing intent associated with the change instruction. The method identifies, using the change instruction, a target element in the main contract to be changed. The method generates a unified contract view that depicts the target element modified according to the editing intent and the change content. The method causes the unified contract view to be output for display.