IBM Watson Compare and Comply: Element Classification

IBM Watson™ Compare and Comply: Element Classification is a solution for programmatically parsing and analyzing dense legal language in legal documents such as contracts.

Compare and Comply: Element Classification makes it possible to rapidly parse through governing documents to convert, identify, and classify elements of importance. Using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing, the service extracts document elements including:

• party (to whom the element refers)
• nature (type of element)
• category (specific class)

The Compare and Comply: Element Classification service provides the following capabilities:

• Natural language understanding of contracts
• The ability to convert programmatic PDF to annotated JSON
• Identification of legal entities and categories that align with subject matter expertise

Compare and Comply: Element Classification provides a functionally rich set of integrated, automated Watson APIs to input a programmatic PDF to identify the following:

• Sections
• Lists (numbered and bulleted)
• Footnotes
• Tables

The service converts these items into a structured HTML format. Furthermore, the service classifies this structured format, annotates it, and outputs it as JSON with labeled elements, types, and categories.

For more information about Compare and Comply: Element Classification, see the product documentation .