Fri 28 Jun 2024 10:45 - 11:15 at M104 - Legal Compliance Chair(s): Chetan Arora

Statutory law is subject to change as legislation develops over time – new regulation can be introduced, while existing regulation can be amended, or repealed. From a require- ments engineering (RE) perspective, such change must be dealt with to ensure the compliance of software systems at all times. Understanding the implications of regulatory change on com- pliance of software requirements requires navigating hundreds of legal provisions. Analyzing instances of regulatory change entirely manually is not only time-consuming, but also risky, since missing a change may result in non-compliant software which can in turn lead to hefty fines. In this paper, we propose MURCIA, an automated approach that leverages recent language models to assist human analysts in analyzing regulatory changes. To build MURCIA, we define a taxonomy that characterizes the regulatory changes at the textual level as well as the changes in the text’s meaning and legal interpretation. We evaluate MURCIA on four regulations from the financial domain. Over our evaluation set, MURCIA can identify textual changes with F1 score of 90.5%, and it can provide, according to our taxonomy, the text meaning and legal interpretation with an F1 score of 90.8% and 83.7%, respectively.

Fri 28 Jun

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10:45 - 12:15
Legal ComplianceRE@Next! Papers / Research Papers at M104
Chair(s): Chetan Arora Monash University
10:45
30m
Paper
AI-enabled Regulatory Change Analysis of Legal Requirements
Research Papers
Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Marcello Ceci University of Luxembourg, Nicolas Sannier University of Luxembourg, SnT, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, Dirk Zetzsche University of Luxembourg, Marco Bodellini University of Luxembourg
Pre-print
11:15
30m
Paper
Defining a Model for Content Requirements from the Law: an Experience Report
Research Papers
Marcello Ceci University of Luxembourg, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
11:45
30m
Paper
Rethinking Legal Compliance Automation: Opportunities with Large Language Models
RE@Next! Papers
Shabnam Hassani University of Ottawa, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa, Daniel Amyot University of Ottawa, Jian Liao
Pre-print