Regulatory Compliance through Doc2Doc Information Retrieval: A case study in EU/UK legislation where text similarity has limitations (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Major scandals in corporate history have urged the need for regulatory compliance, where organizations need to ensure that their controls (processes) comply with relevant laws, regulations, and policies. |
| Approach: | They introduce regulatory information retrieval (REG-IR) an application of document-to-document information retrievals where the query is an entire document making the task more challenging than traditional IR where the queries are short. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is more challenging than traditional IR where the query is an entire document making the task more challenging. |
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