Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques

Karolin Winter; Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_15

Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques

Karolin Winter, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

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Abstract

Extracting constraints and process models from natural language text is an ongoing challenge. While the focus of current research is merely on the extraction itself, this paper presents a three step approach to group constraints as well as to detect and display relations between constraints in order to ease their implementation. For this, the approach uses NLP techniques to extract sentences containing constraints, group them by, e.g., stakeholders or topics, and detect redundant, subsuming, and conflicting pairs of constraints. These relations are displayed using network maps. The approach is prototypically implemented and evaluated based on regulatory documents from the financial sector as well as expert interviews.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences
Subtitle of host publication	Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22-26, 2018, Proceedings, Part I
Editors	Henderik A. Proper, Robert Meersman, Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Hervé Panetto, Christophe Debruyne, Dumitru Roman
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	15
Pages	261-278
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-02610-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-02609-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_15
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	Confederated International Conference On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2018 held in conjunction with Conferences on CoopIS, CandTC and ODBASE 2018 - Valletta, Malta Duration: 22 Oct 2018 → 26 Oct 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Volume	11229
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Name	Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

Conference

Conference	Confederated International Conference On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2018 held in conjunction with Conferences on CoopIS, CandTC and ODBASE 2018
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Valletta
Period	22/10/18 → 26/10/18

Funding

Acknowledgment. This work has been funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-072.

Keywords

Compliance
NLP
Regulatory documents
Requirements extraction
Text mining

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Winter, K., & Rinderle-Ma, S. (2018). Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques. In H. A. Proper, R. Meersman, C. A. Ardagna, H. Panetto, C. Debruyne, & D. Roman (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences : Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22-26, 2018, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 261-278). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); Vol. 11229 ), (Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE) ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_15

Winter, Karolin ; Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie. / Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences : Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22-26, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. editor / Henderik A. Proper ; Robert Meersman ; Claudio Agostino Ardagna ; Hervé Panetto ; Christophe Debruyne ; Dumitru Roman. Cham : Springer, 2018. pp. 261-278 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)). (Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE) ).

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Winter, K & Rinderle-Ma, S 2018, Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques. in HA Proper, R Meersman, CA Ardagna, H Panetto, C Debruyne & D Roman (eds), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences : Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22-26, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 11229 , Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE) , Springer, Cham, pp. 261-278, Confederated International Conference On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2018 held in conjunction with Conferences on CoopIS, CandTC and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, 22/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_15

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Winter K, Rinderle-Ma S. Detecting Constraints and Their Relations from Regulatory Documents Using NLP Techniques. In Proper HA, Meersman R, Ardagna CA, Panetto H, Debruyne C, Roman D, editors, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences : Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22-26, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer. 2018. p. 261-278. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)). (Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE) ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02610-3_15

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