A Web-Based Tool for Analysing Normative Documents in English
Abstract
Our goal is to use formal methods to analyse normative documents written in English, such as privacy policies and service-level agreements. This requires the combination of a number of different elements, including information extraction from natural language, formal languages for model representation, and an interface for property specification and verification. We have worked on a collection of components for this task: a natural language extraction tool, a suitable formalism for representing such documents, an interface for building models in this formalism, and methods for answering queries asked of a given model. In this work, each of these concerns is brought together in a web-based tool, providing a single interface for analysing normative texts in English. Through the use of a running example, we describe each component and demonstrate the workflow established by our tool.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1707.03997
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1707.03997
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170703997C
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computation and Language;
- Computer Science - Computers and Society