Fri 28 Jun 2024 14:15 - 14:45 at V101 - Compliance and Contract Chair(s): Amel Bennaceur

Software Engineering (SE) contracts play a pivotal role in Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) projects. The obligations in SE contracts are known to be a useful source for deriving software requirements, thereby contributing to the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Making sense of contractual obligations is an important first step in successfully executing software projects. This includes building compliant systems, meeting delivery deadlines, avoiding heavy penalties, and steering clear of expensive litigations. In this work, we present an approach to capture the essence of a contractual clause by extracting its Contracts Grammar. Through an exploratory study, we first identify the constituents of Contracts Grammar. Subsequently, we experiment with multiple approaches for the automated extraction of these constituents, including extractive question-answering, token classification, text-to-text generation, prompting, and regular expressions. The question-answering based approach performed the best in terms of high average ROUGE-L score of 0.81, and faster inference times. The work presented in this paper is a part of the Contracts Governance System (CGS) and is in the process of deployment within a large IT vendor organization.

Fri 28 Jun

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13:45 - 14:45
Compliance and ContractIndustrial Innovation Papers / Research Papers at V101
Chair(s): Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK
13:45
30m
Paper
Normative Requirements Operationalization with Large Language Models
Research Papers
Nick Feng University of Toronto, Lina Marsso University of Toronto, Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Isobel Standen University of York, Yesugen Baatartogtokh University of Massachusetts Amherst, Reem Ayad University of Toronto, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello University of Toronto, Beverley Townsend University of York, Hanne Bartels , Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
14:15
30m
Paper
Towards Understanding Contracts Grammar: A Large Language Model-based Extractive Question-Answering Approach
Industrial Innovation Papers
Gokul Rejithkumar TCS Research, Preethu Rose Anish TCS Research, Smita Ghaisas Independent Researcher and Consultant