| Challenge: | Understanding the content of a contract is often difficult and costly, especially if the contract is long and complex. |
| Approach: | They describe how they built an annotated corpus of contract documents that can be used to recognize rights and obligations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can recognize parties' rights and obligations based on 46 English contracts and 25 Japanese contracts drafted by lawyers. |
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