Writing a program i to compare long contracts. Trying to decide how I should write the comparison algorithm and store the data. The docs would be about 20 pages in length.
Originally I was thinking I should break them down into strings of individual sentences, maybe storing them in a spreadsheet, then comparing them. But I can def think of potential problems with that.
Also was originally gonna write it in python since I have been teaching myself how to use it over the past 2 weeks but the more I read, the less confident that I am that I should use it for this.
Not asking for code but if anyone could be very grateful to anyone who can point me in the right direction.
>>54985298
Think about what constitutes a legal clause, and try and separate the phrases and sections in the document into legal clauses.
It might help to talk to a lawyer to discuss the plausibility of breaking up a document into atomized clauses.
>>54985402
Ok that def makes sense. thanks!
>>54985540
If you haven't written a parser before, you should definitely look at simple parser examples first.
>i.e. parsing mathematical expressions
> 3 * 4 + 2 == (3 * 4) + 2 == + * 3 4 2
Legal document parsing is very hard.
>>54985402
I am breaking down the contracts into sections of the contract. Then breaking down the section into sentences. Then comparing each sentence with only the others in that section.
>>54985641
Yeah its def way harder than I had anticipated but I am glad to do it. I have been just writing random programs to learn but this is the first time I have a real-world problem I believe I can fix with programming since I started teaching myself python about 3 weeks ago.
Right now I can compare the exact strings but I have to learn how to compare when someone has re-worded a sentence that has the same meaning.
