Contract Segmentation Task
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A Contract Segmentation Task is a document segmentation task of contract documents into contract document segment items.
- Context:
- Input: Contract Documents, particularly contracts that may include complex structures and legal jargon.
- Output: Segmented Contract Document Items, where each segment represents a distinct, coherent part of the contract such as its definitions, terms and conditions, obligations, and annexes.
- Measure: Accuracy of segmentation based on legal relevance and coherence of the segmented parts, and the ability to facilitate tasks like contract review, analysis, and information extraction.
- It can (often) preceed a Contract Segment Classification Task.
- It can be solved by Contract Document Segmentation Systems.
- It can support Contract Analysis Tasks.
- It can assist in Contract Management Systems by enabling the automatic categorization and retrieval of contract segments for various operational purposes.
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- Example(s):
- Segmenting a service agreement into sections such as scope of services, performance standards, compensation, confidentiality obligations, and termination clauses.
- Dividing an employment contract into introductory provisions, employment terms, duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, confidentiality and non-compete clauses, and termination conditions.
- Organizing a lease agreement into segments like premises description, lease term, rent, security deposit, maintenance and repairs, and lessee and lessor obligations.
- Structuring a software license agreement into preamble, definitions, grant of license, intellectual property rights, warranties and disclaimers, liability limitations, and termination.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- A Text Tokenization Task, which focuses on the granular division of text into tokens rather than structured sections of documents.
- A Paragraph Segmentation Task, which involves identifying individual paragraphs without concern for their legal significance or content categorization.
- A General Text Segmentation Task, which does not require domain-specific knowledge and aims at broadly organizing text based on generic topics or themes.
- See: Contract Section, Legal Document Analysis.