JP7042501B2 - Legal document review program, legal document review method, and legal document review system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a legal document review program, a legal document review method, a legal document review system, and the like.

Legal documents that regulate legal relationships between multiple parties, such as contracts and terms of use, are defined based on various factors such as the type of legal relationship, the power balance between the parties, and the purpose of concluding a contract. Will be. On the other hand, legal documents are stipulated in the background of the existence of various rules such as ministerial ordinances, various guidelines, business customs, as well as the law, and it is necessary to fully understand those specialized knowledge. It is extremely difficult to judge whether the content is advantageous or disadvantageous for the user.

Therefore, as described above, the judgment (review) as to whether the content of a highly specialized legal document is advantageous to oneself is usually made based on the judgment of an expert such as a lawyer. Asking such an expert to review any legal document has been extremely difficult in terms of time and financial costs. Furthermore, since these reviews depend on the human background and expertise of legal experts, it was difficult to obtain stable and homogeneous review results.

Therefore, various efforts have been tried so far for the purpose of solving such problems. Specifically, as listed below, by digitizing legal documents, reading them with a computer, scoring the contents by clause, and outputting the results, the contract has for the user. Technologies that make it easier to understand risks are known.

US Published Patent Gazette 2016/0232630

However, the prior art described in the same document is a technology for displaying and outputting quantified scoring, and if only the scoring result that is only quantified in that way is output, it is a legal document. It was difficult for users with poor understanding to intuitively understand how advantageous or disadvantageous it was, and it was difficult to say that they were able to provide favorable review results.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has a data reception unit that accepts input of legal document data, which is an digitized legal document, and character content included in the legal document data received by the data reception unit. It is a rule for determining whether or not the character content identification unit that identifies each predetermined unit and the character content identified by the character content identification unit are advantageous to the user of the legal document data by using the score. Scores of the judgment rule holding unit that holds the judgment rule, the scoring processing unit that scores the character content identified by the character content identification unit using the judgment rule that is held by the judgment rule holding unit, and the scoring processing unit. The output section that outputs the ring result and
The output unit proposes a legal document review system having a UI output means that displays and outputs whether or not the scoring result is advantageous for the user by using at least one element of color, size, and shape. do.

With the present invention mainly having the above-mentioned structure, it is possible to easily visually grasp whether the content of the legal document is advantageous or disadvantageous to oneself, and the magnitude of the risk of creating the legal document to the user and the magnitude of the risk to the user. It will be possible to make it easier to understand the details of the risks for each regulation.

The figure which shows the outline of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the functional block of embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the character content identification at the time of accepting the input of the business consignment contract data as the legal document data in the legal document review system of this embodiment. A chart showing an example of the judgment rule held in the legal document review system of this embodiment. The figure which shows an example of the configuration which displays and outputs the whole scoring result in the output part of the legal document review system of this embodiment. Figure showing an example of display output of amendment proposal presentation comment Schematic diagram showing an example of the configuration when each functional configuration of each device constituting the embodiment of the present invention is realized as hardware. The figure which shows the flow of the process of embodiment of this invention

First, FIG. 1 is shown. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of the present invention, and is an example of a display screen of a user terminal which is a terminal managed by a user who requests a risk grasp (review) of business consignment contract data using the legal document review system of the present invention. It is a figure which shows. As shown in the figure, when the input of the data of the legal document (contract) titled "Business consignment contract" 0100 is accepted in the present invention, the character content included in the contract data is set as a clause unit. The text content of "You shall carry out this business with the care of a good manager" corresponding to "Article 1, Paragraph 2" 0101, for example, is the use of this legal document data. Whether or not it is advantageous for the person is judged (scoring) using the score based on the judgment rule to be held, and the result of the scoring is specified by 0302 in association with the corresponding character content together with the shape of "○". It is displayed and output in the area.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments used in the following description, and has the technical ideas described in each claim in accordance with common general technical knowledge, and is within the scope not deviating from the gist thereof. In, it can be carried out in various embodiments.

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FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a functional block of the legal document review system of the present embodiment. As shown in the figure, the "legal document review system" 0200 of the present embodiment includes a "data receiving unit" 0201, a "character content identification unit" 0202, a "judgment rule holding unit" 0203, and a "judgment rule holding unit" 0203. It is composed of a scoring processing unit "0204" and an "output unit" 0205, and the output unit further includes a "UI output means" 0206.

The legal document review system described in detail below may be composed of one or a plurality of devices, and any of the functional blocks thereof may be realized as hardware or software. Taking a computer as an example, a CPU, main memory, GPU, image memory, bus, secondary storage device (hardware or non-volatile memory), camera, operation buttons, touch panel, electronic pen for touching the touch panel, etc. Hardware components such as various input devices, microphones, displays and other output devices, and other external peripheral devices, as well as interfaces for the external peripheral devices, communication interfaces, and driver programs for controlling those hardware. Other application programs and the like can be mentioned.

Then, by the arithmetic processing of the CPU according to the program expanded on the main memory, the data input from the input device or other interface and held in the memory or hardware can be processed and stored, or the above-mentioned hardware or the above-mentioned hardware can be processed and stored. Instructions to control the software are generated. Here, the above program may be realized as a plurality of modularized programs, or may be realized as one program by combining two or more programs. And, of course, it may be an add-in module of a document creation program such as Word (registered trademark) used for viewing, creating or editing legal document data.

The "data receiving unit" 0201 is configured to receive input of "legal document data" 0210, which is an digitized legal document. In addition to contracts, legal documents here may include any document whose purpose is to establish legal relationships between multiple parties, regardless of terms of use, memorandums, or other names. These will be digitized and used in a format that can be processed by a computer.

As a specific mode of input reception, in addition to the case of receiving an e-mail, an appropriate method such as dragging to a web page or uploading by another method may be used, and not only one legal document data but also a plurality of legal document data. You may accept all the inputs of. In addition to accepting input from the user, a configuration is also conceivable in which legal document data is extracted by crawling a data area in a predetermined range specified in advance, and the extracted legal document data is accepted as an input result. By adopting this configuration, the present invention can be used without the user having to perform input work one by one, and it becomes possible to efficiently grasp the risk of a large amount of legal document data.

Further, "accepting input of legal document data" here is not limited to a configuration that accepts input of all character data included in legal document data, for example, only some character data included in legal document data. You may adopt the structure which accepts the input of. For example, it may accept input only within a specified range according to the user's arbitrary choice, or it may be related to a specific legal issue (specifically, a legal issue regarding the handling of intellectual property rights or compensation for damages). It is also conceivable to provide input of only character data including legal issues, legal issues regarding the scope of confidentiality, etc.). If this configuration is adopted, the scoring described later can be performed only within the range according to the user's demand, and the result can be output, and it becomes possible to promptly provide the user with a feedock.

When inputting multiple legal document data at once is accepted, the identification order is determined by using the identification order determination rule for determining the order in which the legal document data is identified by the character content identification unit. An order determination unit may be provided. Specifically, it is necessary to prioritize scoring the data size and number of clauses of legal document data, the title of legal document data, the scheduled conclusion date of legal document data, the expiration date of legal document data, and other legal document data. It is conceivable to determine the identification order using enough information to determine the sex.

Incidentally, the data receiving unit may be provided with an "anonymization processing means" that performs a process for anonymizing the legal document data when receiving an input of the legal document data. Legal document data should be data that is strongly requested to be confidential externally not only for its contents but also for who the contracting party is (parties), when it was concluded (concluding date) and other matters. Is normal. Therefore, when the data reception department accepts the input of legal documents, it is desirable to promptly extract the proper nomenclature of the contracting parties, etc. included in the legal document data and anonymize them. Specifically, when the data reception unit accepts the input of legal document data, it uses Hidden Markov Model (HMM), which is a proper noun extraction method, Conditional Random Field (CRF), or other technical means. It is desirable to anonymize party names, specific product names, service names, project names and other proper nouns contained in legal document data. By the way, in an example of the business consignment contract data explained using Fig. 3 below, the case where the proper nouns of "A" and "B", which are the contracting parties, are both displayed as "●●●" is taken as an example. This is because it is an example of the display assuming the case where the anonymization process described here is performed. By adopting this configuration, for example, when the legal document review system of the present invention is realized by communication with an external terminal such as cloud computing, the legal document data received from the user is external. Even if the data is leaked, it is difficult to grasp the relationship between the leaked data and the user, and various risks associated with the leak can be reduced to some extent.

The "character content identification unit" 0202 is configured to identify the character content included in the legal document data received by the data reception unit for each predetermined unit. Specifically, the text content is defined in multiple layers for each theme that regulates legal relations among the information that constitutes legal document data, such as "Article 1" and "Article 2, Paragraph 3". It is preferable to subdivide each piece of information so that the subdivided information can be easily processed by the scoring processing unit described later. As a specific mode of identification, in addition to adopting the case of identifying based on the identification rule predetermined from the content or appearance of the character content, the identification information indicating the identification result is received and the identification information is used for identification. It may be a case of performing processing.

Here, an example of character content identification in the character content identification unit will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of character content identification when the input of business consignment contract data is accepted as legal document data in the legal document review system of the present embodiment. In the figure, of the data of the business consignment contract, the "title part" 0300, "●●● (hereinafter referred to as" A ") and ●●● (hereinafter" B "" described as "business consignment contract" ()) And conclude a content production contract (hereinafter referred to as "this contract") as follows. "Preamble part" 0301 described as "Article 1 (consignment business)" described as "Article 1 part" 0302 and Article 2 described, but this is the business for which input was accepted. It is a figure showing only a part of the consignment contract data, and the description content is only an example of the contract data, and is not directly related to the technical content of the present invention.

Among the character contents shown in the figure, the character content identification unit is configured to identify the character contents for each predetermined unit arbitrarily set, for example, "title part" 0300, "preamble". If a configuration for identification such as 0301 and "Article 1" 0302 is considered, "Title part" 0300, "Preamble" 0301, "Article 1 Paragraph 1" 0302a, "Article 1 Paragraph 2" 0302b It is also possible to adopt a structure in which one article is further subdivided and identified for each item, such as ,. In some cases, such as "Article 1, Paragraph 1, Item 1" and "Article 1, Paragraph 1, Item 2", each article has "No." or other layers as the lower layer structure of the item. In that case, a configuration for identifying character content for each layer may be adopted. In this way, by adopting a configuration that identifies the character content according to the hierarchy predetermined by the creator of the legal document, it is possible to make a judgment corresponding to the individual specific content of the legal document. Become.

The "judgment rule holding unit" 0203 is a rule for determining whether or not the character content identified by the character content identification unit is advantageous for the user of the legal document data by using the score. It is configured to hold 0220. The "judgment rule" here is the legal nature of the relevant legal document data (sales contract, license contract, manufacturing consignment contract, system development contract, content production business consignment contract, confidentiality contract, personnel introduction contract, system maintenance contract, etc. Dealer contract, sales agency contract, agency contract, lease contract, advertising agency contract, consulting contract, worker dispatch contract, employment introduction contract, business consignment contract, manuscript creation consignment contract, video production consignment contract, video production consignment contract, SaaS Terms of Use, Site Production Contract, App Development Contract, Software Production Consignment Contract, App Development Consignment Contract, Website Production Consignment Contract, Game Management Consignment Contract, Advisory Contract, Advisory Contract, Advertising Operation Contract, Advertising Distribution Consignment Contract, Lease Contract・ Investment contracts are an example, but other contract types are not excluded).

The judgment rule held by the judgment rule holding unit is provided according to the legal nature of the legal document data, but it is not always the case that only one judgment rule is used according to one legal property. Legal documents usually have various provisions according to the legal nature and provisions that are common to almost all legal documents (so-called general provisions). Examples of general provisions may include governing law, jurisdiction, exclusion of antisocial forces, survival clauses or integrity obligations. Regarding the judgment of these general clauses, it is conceivable to use the "general clause judgment rule" for common use in scoring processing regardless of the legal nature of the legal document data, and in that case, one legal document data. Therefore, it is conceivable to use a judgment rule according to the legal nature and a general clause judgment rule. If this configuration is adopted, the content of the judgment rule according to the legal nature can be compressed, and as a result, efficient judgment processing can be realized.

By the way, it is conceivable that the judgment rule is not only set according to the legal nature, but also set for each position of the parties in the relevant legal document data. According to a concrete example of the meaning of "position" here, when the business consignment contract is legal document data, the judgment rule and business for the user (consignor) who consigns the business are entrusted. Judgment rules for users (trustees) may be set individually.

As an example of the configuration of the determination rule, for example, a table to be used for the scoring process in the scoring process section described later can be considered. Specifically, it is conceivable to provide a table for determining whether or not the meaning content of each character content identified by the character content identification unit is advantageous to the user. In addition to the judgment rule for judging the meaning and content of each character content, is the content of the entire legal document data composed of all the character contents advantageous to the user based on the judgment? A "legal document data judgment rule" may be provided as a judgment rule for judging whether or not. If a structure that enables scoring of the entire legal document data as well as individual text content is adopted, the user should take the legal document with respect to the other party based on the scoring result. Can be grasped more easily.

"Judging whether or not the content is advantageous by using the score" means that the judgment result of advantage or disadvantage is judged based on an index that can be uniquely grasped by the user, and some index that can realize the effect. If so, the index may be used as a score, and it is not necessary to limit the score, evaluation (rank A, rank B, etc.) or other specific index as a score.

The content of the determination rule may be appropriately configured according to the legal nature, format, etc. of the legal document data or character content. Specifically, the importance of the identified character content in the relevant legal document content, the title, the presence or absence of words that should be essential in the relevant legal document, the strength of the expression as the character content, and the magnitude of the numerical value included in the character content. Or, the length of the period included in the text content is set as an item for judgment, and whether or not the content is advantageous to the user is determined by using natural language processing or other technology. It is conceivable to use a table for performing analysis and judgment (scoring) processing. By adopting this configuration, it becomes possible to evaluate character contents created by various expressions from various angles and perform determination processing.

In addition, for each legal property of legal document data in advance, legal issues that are assumed corresponding to the legal property are set as items for judgment, and each item is disadvantageous from the content that is advantageous to the user. It is also conceivable to configure a plurality of character data that can be evaluated as the content as the content of the judgment rule in advance as example sentence character data and associate each with the score. By configuring the example sentences as the contents of the judgment rule in advance, the character data that has undergone natural language processing, etc., without the need for processing for interpreting the meaning and content of each character content in the scoring processing unit described later. It is possible to perform scoring processing by comparing with the example sentence character data.

Here, FIG. 4 is shown. FIG. 4 is a chart showing an example of a determination rule held in the legal document review system of the present embodiment. The figure shows an example of the judgment rule regarding the "duty of care of the trustee", which is the legal issue to which the ID "AX0306" is assigned when the legal document data is the data related to the business consignment contract. It is composed of "example sentence character data" and "display content". If the character data of the legal document data contains a provision regarding the duty of care of the trustee, the judgment rule associated with the relevant legal issue ID will be applied, and the content of the character data and the example sentence character data will be applied. Can be compared. If, as a result of the comparison process, keywords such as "good" and "administrator" can be extracted, and keywords such as "separately", "instruction", and "estimate" are not extracted, the keywords are duplicated according to the judgment rule. Depending on the situation, it does not correspond to the scores "AA", "A", "C", and "F", and is associated with the example sentence character data of the content "The trustee bears the duty of care as a good manager." It is conceivable that the rules will be such that the score is determined to be "B (neutral)" (scoring). When the score is specified, the score and the display content are also associated in the determination rule so that the display content associated with the score is displayed by the UI output means. In the figure, when the score AA is determined, "◎ (color is blue, size is equivalent to 4 characters of character data)", and when score B is determined, "○ (color is green, size)". Is equivalent to 4 characters of character data) ”,“ △ (color is yellow, size is equivalent to 6 characters of character data) ”when judged as score C, and“! (Color is equivalent to 6 characters) when judged as score F It is possible to set a rule that "red color and size are equivalent to 8 characters of character data)" and to output display contents according to the rule. The criteria for determining the similarity between the character content to be scored and the example sentence character content should be determined by selecting a natural language processing approach, past usage records of users, and other appropriate methods. It is a design matter.

It should be noted that the judgment rule is not generated for the purpose of scoring all the character contents specified in the legal document contents. Due to the stance of the parties involved, legal document content often includes various provisions other than the standard provisions familiar to legal evaluation, and it is used as a rule assuming that all of them are scored. not present.

Here, regarding the handling of character content that is not familiar with legal evaluation, the rule is to make a judgment such as "do not judge whether it is advantageous content" or "cannot judge whether it is advantageous content" in the judgment rule. It can also be configured as content.

In addition, when it is not possible to judge whether or not the content is advantageous only from a legal point of view, a legal point of view such as "should be judged based on the relative relationship with the other party" and "management judgment is necessary". The content of the rule may be configured to determine whether or not it is advantageous from a different point of view. Specifically, in a sales contract, whether or not the selling price of the transaction target is appropriate cannot always be determined mechanically, and various factors such as the time, the supply-demand balance between the parties, and the relationship are factors. Since it is decided based on the above, it is conceivable to make a rule that the user should make a final decision after taking such factors into consideration. By adopting this configuration, it is possible to avoid a situation in which the judgment rule is operated rigidly, and on the contrary, it becomes impossible to provide a truly suitable advantage / disadvantage judgment material for a user who can stand in various positions.

Judgment rules are held by an external server and can be used by communicating with the external server. In addition, information can be appropriately modified by sending and receiving information to and from the external server. Even if a configuration is adopted in which a correction recommendation section is provided that receives a correction recommendation according to the result of the scoring process in the above and makes a correction according to the recommendation, and the correction is made at an appropriate timing by executing the correction recommendation section. good. Specifically, a configuration is conceivable in which the content of a specific character content or the content of the determination rule used for the determination in association with the character content is updated through a plurality of scoring processes. It is conceivable to use machine learning for the update process referred to here, and in this case, the determination rule is configured as a trained model. That is, it can be positioned as a learning model for machine processing so that the judgment as to whether or not the content of the character content is advantageous to the user is output as a quantified score based on the character content in the legal document data. can. By adopting this configuration, the judgment rule can be refined as the scoring is repeated, and the judgment rule can be generated so as to provide the latest and easy-to-understand scoring result for the user.

The "scoring processing unit" 0204 is configured to score using a determination rule in which the character content identified by the character content identification unit is held by the determination rule holding unit. Specifically, whether or not the identified text content is advantageous to the user is scored based on the merits and burdens of financial, physical, and legal rights and obligations, and other factors adopted by the judgment rules. It is configured to ring. It is conceivable that the scoring is determined by the judgment rule so that it is given to each character content identified according to the judgment result of the judgment rule, but separately from the judgment rule, scoring is performed for each judgment result using the judgment rule. You may adopt a configuration in which a scoring rule for performing the above is retained and scoring is performed using the scoring rule. Further, a multi-character content scoring means for collectively scoring a plurality of character contents may be provided instead of each of the identified character contents. By adopting this configuration, it becomes possible to perform more substantial scoring based on a plurality of judgment factors comprehensively.

Here, an example of a scoring processing method when the word or character content that is essential or desirable for the user from the viewpoint of the corresponding legal nature is not included in the legal document content will be described. .. Legal document data is composed of many character data, and one of the effects of the present invention is to prevent omission of confirmation of the description of many of these character data. However, it is hard to say that a legal document that is truly useful to the user can be reviewed simply by checking the written character data. That is, even when the content that should have been originally described is not described in the legal document, the fact itself is often disadvantageous to the user. Therefore, if it is determined that the required character content, which is the character content that should be scored under a specific judgment rule, is not included in the legal document content, the required character content is described in the scoring processing unit. It is conceivable to adopt a "caution information generation means" that generates attention information as one aspect of scoring, which is information to the effect that there is no such information. Specifically, as warning information, "This contract requires provisions regarding the handling of intellectual property rights, but the content of this legal document does not contain the relevant provisions, and it is not possible to determine advantages or disadvantages. It is conceivable to generate a comment such as "Please consider adding a clause." In addition, information that scoring is not possible because the character content that should be judged is not included in the legal document data, and information that prompts the addition by listing specific character content as a sentence example are generated as alert information. It is conceivable to perform scoring processing.

It should be noted that scoring is not performed from the viewpoint of determining whether or not the character content that is not the target of scoring in the determination rule is advantageous. In addition, if the judgment rule contains character content that needs to be evaluated in order to carry out the business, not from a legal point of view, it indicates that business judgment is required instead of scoring. It is conceivable to use a "business clause information generation means" that generates business clause information, which is information, as one aspect of scoring. By adopting such a structure, it is possible not only to present advantages and disadvantages from a legal point of view, but also to provide more substantive information according to the business position.

Further, the scoring performed here is performed from the viewpoint of "whether or not it is advantageous", but the degree of advantage or not may be specifically evaluated and determined. More specifically, it is conceivable to perform scoring as to whether or not it is advantageous in about 5 stages. This is because it is difficult to say that the advantages and disadvantages for all users can be determined if the scoring is too rough, and it is difficult for the users to grasp their own advantages and disadvantages if the scoring is performed in detail and subdivided.

However, scoring does not necessarily require evaluation and judgment in a plurality of stages for all character contents. As shown in the example described with reference to FIG. 4, it is possible not to provide the character data corresponding to the score A (trustee slightly advantageous) on the premise that the evaluation is performed on a maximum of 5 stages. This is because the judgment criteria for judging whether or not it is advantageous may be wide or narrow depending on the range of choices of the user corresponding to the legal issue on which the judgment is based. Therefore, it is desirable that a plurality of patterns of evaluation judgment stages in scoring are provided according to legal issues.

Furthermore, it is also conceivable to provide a "party position judgment means" that accepts the selection of which position the user is in the legal document data and performs subsequent scoring according to the selection. In this case, scoring is performed using a judgment rule according to the position selected by the party position judgment means. For each legal relationship, such as seller and buyer for sales contract, consignor and trustee for business consignment contract, licensor and licensee for license contract, disclosing party and disclosed person for nondisclosure agreement, etc. Since the standing position (position) of the parties is determined in advance, and by designating the user's position in advance, it is possible to make a judgment based on that position even when scoring, so the output content in the output section below However, it is not limited to the abstract one, but can be made more concrete according to the position of the parties concerned.

The "output unit" 0205 is configured to output the "scoring result" 0230 of the scoring processing unit. Specifically, it is conceivable to display and output the scoring result in association with the character content to which the scoring is performed, but not only the scoring but also the scoring and the comment should be displayed and output in association with each other. It may be configured. In this case, the association between the scoring and the comment may be configured as a part of the judgment rule in advance, or a configuration is adopted in which the input of the comment is accepted and the received comment is associated with the scoring and output. You may.

Incidentally, the scoring result may be output in a plurality of modes for one legal document data. Specifically, in addition to the configuration that outputs the scoring result for each character content that constitutes the legal document data, the configuration that outputs the scoring result of each character content that constitutes the legal document data so that it can be viewed in a list, and further. May be configured to output both individual scoring results and overall scoring results. As a configuration that allows you to view the scoring results in a list, at the beginning of the display output screen, "This contract contains nine provisions that include content that is disadvantageous to you." "This contract contains nine provisions." It is conceivable to display the scoring results such as "4 important rules for you are missing" and to display and output the scoring results for each character content individually. By adopting this configuration, users can first recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the entire legal document data, and at the same time, it is easy to grasp the amount of matters that they are forced to consider and the cost required for the examination. Can be made to.

Here, FIG. 5 is shown. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a configuration in which the output unit of the legal document review system of the present embodiment also displays and outputs the overall scoring result. As shown in the figure, as the scoring result of the legal document data consisting of the title of "Business consignment contract" 0500, the scoring result for individual character contents (for example, corresponding to Article 1, Paragraph 2, 0502). "○" Score: B "" Comment: It is a level of duty of care in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code, and it is a general provision that cannot be said to be particularly advantageous or disadvantageous to you. (Display of the content of ".") Prior to 0503, in the opening area 0501 of the relevant legal document data, "This contract contains nine provisions that include content that is disadvantageous to you." "This contract It is conceivable to output a display of the overall scoring results that summarizes the individual scoring results, such as "The book is missing four rules that are important to you."

The comment here is not only a "legal evaluation comment" which is a comment showing the judgment process leading to the scoring, but also a "legal evaluation comment" which presents a concrete amendment based on the scoring. It may be a comment for presenting an amendment. It is possible that all comments are held in advance in association with the judgment results in the judgment rules, and for legal evaluation comments, simply "This provision is disadvantageous to you from the perspective of ...". In addition to the content that conveys the evaluation, "... is the content, but please check if there is any omission of consideration from the viewpoint of ..." to encourage reexamination. Is conceivable. The content of the legal evaluation comment explained earlier using Fig. 5 is "Comment: The level of duty of care in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code, which is not particularly advantageous or disadvantageous to you, and is a general provision." This is just one example, and there are other comments that prompt users to confirm the factors that may affect scoring, such as "Please check if there is a special duty of care imposed by the consignor." It is an example of a legal evaluation comment, and in any case, the specific structure is a design matter.

It is preferable that the comment for presenting the amendment proposal is composed of a plurality of types of amendment proposals according to the position of the user. The "position of the user" here can be determined by the power relationship in the business relationship, the size of the company, etc., so for example, "a revision plan when the company is in an advantageous position" and "when it is in an equal position". It is conceivable to display and output multiple types of amendment proposals such as "amendment proposal" and "amendment proposal when the other party is in an advantageous position" as comments. By outputting such comments in association with the scoring results, it is possible not only to judge the advantages and disadvantages of the user, but also how to correct the disadvantages to improve the position. It can be easily grasped.

Here, FIG. 6 is shown. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of display output of the amendment proposal presentation comment. In the same figure as in Fig. 5, the scoring result for the provisions regarding the duty of care of the trustee in the business consignment contract is displayed and output, but the content of the character content subject to the scoring is "Otsu. This work shall be carried out with the care of a good manager. If the delivered content contains defects, it is presumed that the obligation has been violated. " It is different from the content shown in FIG. As the scoring 0602 for the character content 0601 in the figure, in addition to the display content of "△ (the! Mark is further written inside the triangle mark)", "Matters corresponding to the violation of the duty of due care of a prudent manager are estimated. The provisions are included. Therefore, the responsibility of the trustee can be widely questioned, so it can be said that the provisions pose a great risk to the trustee. " , In the case of an equal position, the amendment proposal according to the three patterns in the case where the other party is advantageous is displayed as the amendment proposal comment. Of the example sentence character contents held in the determination rule, the amendment proposal comments of the three patterns are displayed and output using the contents positioned relative to the score for the character contents. By adopting this configuration, it becomes possible to effectively utilize the judgment rule and provide a wide range of options according to the user's situation.

The "UI output means" 0206 is configured in the output unit to display and output whether or not the scoring result is advantageous for the user together with the display content using at least one element of color, size, and shape. ing. The color may be expressed using a color system such as RGB or Lab for each scoring result, and may be expressed as a name representing a specific color such as "red", "blue", and "green". .. The color information may be composed of only one color, or may be composed of only a plurality of colors. A configuration is also conceivable in which the brightness of the color or the like changes with a gradation as the scoring changes, and if such a configuration is adopted, it becomes possible to grasp the height of the scoring with even greater visibility.

Regarding the size, it is conceivable to display a predetermined display content according to the level of scoring. Specifically, it is conceivable to make the display smaller if the scoring is advantageous to oneself, and to make the display larger if the scoring is disadvantageous. As described in the column of display content in the judgment rule illustrated in the explanation using FIG. 4, if the score is advantageous to the user (trustee), it is displayed in a normal size and displayed to the user. It is conceivable to increase the size of the display as it becomes disadvantageous and emphasize the awareness of the user. By adopting this configuration, it becomes possible for the user to intuitively grasp the advantages and disadvantages of the character content.

Regarding the shape, in addition to the case of a circle, quadrangle, rectangle, sphere, or other geometric figure shape, when using a pictogram such as a character, or when using a symbolic shape such as "○", "×", "△", etc. It may be used.

The display content output by the UI output means may be generated by combining the display contents having the configurations described so far. That is, it is possible to generate display contents by combining colors and sizes or by combining colors and shapes according to the scoring result. Specifically, when a scoring that a specific character content is particularly disadvantageous is output, or a character content that is originally judged to be highly important in the relevant legal document data is not described. When the scoring result is content that should specifically call attention to the user, such as when outputting attention information, it is conceivable to output a combination of display contents of a plurality of elements. For example, a configuration in which an "x" -shaped symbol is displayed in a red color or an "!" Shaped symbol is displayed in a yellow color can be considered. By adopting this configuration, it is possible to flexibly output display contents for various scoring results, so that the visibility of a wide range of scoring results can be improved.

<Concrete configuration>
Here, FIG. 7 is shown. The figure is a schematic diagram showing an example of the configuration when each functional configuration of the legal document review system of the present embodiment is collectively realized as one hardware. Each device has a "CPU" 0701, a "storage device (storage medium)" 0702, a "main memory" 0703, an "input interface" 0704, and an "output interface" 0705 for executing various arithmetic processes. , A "network interface" 0706, and transmits / receives information to / from an external peripheral device such as a "touch panel" 0707 or a "display" 0708 via an input / output interface. In addition, information is transmitted / received to / from an external device such as an "external server" 070901 or a "user terminal" 070902 via a network interface. The specific aspect of this network interface may be wired or wireless, and the communication method may be direct or indirect. Therefore, it is also possible to adopt a so-called cloud computing format in which information is transmitted / received between a specific external device or a user of the device and a server managed by a third party associated with the device.

Various programs as described below are stored in the storage device, and the CPU reads these various programs into the work area of the main memory, expands and executes them. It should be noted that these configurations are interconnected by a data communication path such as "system bus" 0799 to transmit / receive and process information (the basic configuration of the above configuration is any of the other devices described below. The same applies to.

(Specific configuration of the judgment rule holding unit)
The determination rule holding unit is specifically composed of a computer program and computer hardware, and is the character content identified by the character content identification unit in the storage area of the computer particularly advantageous for the user of the legal document data? It is configured by storing a rule for determining whether or not to use the score. Specifically, the CPU reads the "determination rule holding program" 0750 from the storage device into the main memory and executes it, and stores the "determination rule" 0798 at a predetermined address. Judgment rules are written or created and modified from internal or external terminals.

(Specific structure of the data reception department)
It consists of a computer program and computer hardware, and the CPU reads the "data reception program" 0760 from the storage device to the main memory and executes it, and accepts the input of legal document data, which is a legal document digitized via the network, and is the main. Store at a given address in memory.

(Specific configuration of the character content identification unit)
It consists of a computer program and computer hardware, and the CPU reads the "character content identification program" 0770 from the storage device into the main memory and executes it, and the character content included in the legal document data received by executing the data reception program is a predetermined unit. Each is identified and stored at a predetermined address in the main memory.

(Specific configuration of scoring processing unit)
It consists of a computer program and computer hardware, and the CPU reads the "scoring process program" 0780 from the storage device to the main memory and executes it, and the character content identified by executing the character content identification program is held by the determination rule holding unit. Scoring is performed using the judgment rule to be performed, and the result is stored at a predetermined address in the main memory.

If the scoring processing unit determines that the required character content, which is the character content that should be scored under a specific judgment rule, is not included in the legal document content, the required character content is described. A configuration is also conceivable in which an alert information generation subprogram that generates alert information, which is information to the effect that the information is not provided, is generated as one aspect of scoring. When this configuration is adopted, the CPU reads the "scoring processing program" 0780 from the storage device into the main memory and executes it, and the determination rule holding unit retains the character content identified by executing the character content identification program. When scoring using the rule, the "Caution information generation subprogram" is read into the main memory and executed, and if it is determined that the required character content is not included, the required character content is not described. A process of generating alert information, which is information, as one aspect of scoring is performed, and the information is stored at a predetermined address in the main memory together with other scoring results.

(Specific configuration of output unit)
It consists of a computer program and computer hardware such as a display, and the CPU reads the "output program" 0790 from the storage device to the main memory and executes it, and outputs the scoring result obtained by executing the scoring processing program. .. Here, the "UI output subprogram" 079010 is read and executed together with the main memory, and whether or not the scoring result is advantageous for the user is determined by using at least one element of color, size, and shape. Performs the process of displaying and outputting in association with the identified character content.

<Processing flow>
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a processing flow in the legal document review system of the present embodiment. The processing flow in the figure consists of the following steps. First, in step S0801, a process of accepting input of legal document data, which is an digitized legal document, is performed (data reception step). Next, in step S0802, a process of identifying the character content included in the legal document data received in the data reception step is performed for each predetermined unit (character content identification step). In step S0803, a process of scoring using a determination rule in which the character content identified in the character content identification step is held by the determination rule holding unit is performed (scoring process step). After that, in step S0804, a process of outputting the scoring result obtained by the scoring process step is performed (step step). Here, as S0814, whether or not the scoring result is advantageous for the user is displayed and output in association with the identified character content using at least one element of color, size, and shape (UI output substep). ).

<Effect>
By using the legal document review system that adopts the above structure, it is possible to list whether the legal document is advantageous or disadvantageous to itself, and it is possible for the user to see the magnitude of the risk of creating the legal document and each regulation. It becomes possible to easily understand the content of the risk.

0200 ... Legal document review system, 0201 ... Data reception unit, 0202 ... Character content identification unit, 0203 ... Judgment rule holding unit, 0204 ... Scoring processing unit, 0205 ... Output unit, 0206・ ・ ・ UI output means

Claims (5)

A system for reviewing legal documents
The data reception department that accepts the input of legal document data,
The character content identification unit that identifies the character content contained in the legal document data received by the data reception unit for each predetermined unit, and the character content identification unit.
A judgment rule holding unit that holds a judgment rule that is a rule for judging whether or not the character content identified by the character content identification unit is advantageous for the user of the legal document data.
A processing unit that processes the character content identified by the character content identification unit using a judgment rule that is held by the judgment rule holding unit, and a processing unit.
An output unit that outputs the result of the processing unit and
Have,
When the processing unit determines that the character content to be determined by a specific determination rule is not included in the legal document content, the character content should be described in the legal document content. It has a generation means for generating a warning information to prompt the addition of the character content as one aspect of the determination.
Legal document review system. A system for reviewing legal documents
The data reception department that accepts the input of legal document data,
The character content identification unit that identifies the character content contained in the legal document data received by the data reception unit for each predetermined unit, and the character content identification unit.
A judgment rule holding unit that holds a judgment rule that is a rule for judging whether or not the character content identified by the character content identification unit is advantageous for the user of the legal document data by using a score, and a judgment rule holding unit.
A scoring processing unit that scores using the judgment rule that holds the character content identified by the character content identification unit in the judgment rule holding unit, and
An output unit that outputs the scoring result of the scoring processing unit,
Have,
When the scoring processing unit determines that the required character content, which is the character content to be scored in a specific determination rule, is not included in the legal document content, the required character content is the legal document content. It has a warning information generation means for generating warning information as an aspect of scoring, which is the appropriate content described in the above and is information for prompting the addition of the required character content .
Legal document review system. It has a judgment rule holding unit that holds a judgment rule that is a rule for judging whether or not the character content identified by executing the character content identification program is advantageous for the user of legal document data by using a score. A program that runs a legal document review system
A data reception step that accepts input of legal document data,
A character content identification step that identifies the character content included in the legal document data received in the data reception step for each predetermined unit, and a character content identification step.
A processing step for determining the character content identified in the character content identification step using a determination rule held by the determination rule holding unit, and a processing step.
An output step that outputs the result executed in the processing step, and
Have,
In the processing step, if it is determined that the character content to be determined by a specific determination rule is not included in the legal document content, the character content should be described in the legal document content. Therefore, a warning information to encourage the addition of the character content is generated as one aspect of the determination.
Legal document review program. The legal document review program according to claim 3, which is an add-in module of a document creation program used for viewing, creating or editing legal document data. Using the judgment rule holding unit that holds the judgment rule, which is a rule for judging whether or not the character content identified by the execution of the character content identification program is advantageous for the user of the legal document data by using the score. It is a method of reviewing legal documents
A data reception step that accepts input of legal document data,
A character content identification step that identifies the character content included in the legal document data received in the data reception step for each predetermined unit, and a character content identification step.
A processing step for determining the character content identified in the character content identification step using a determination rule held by the determination rule holding unit, and a processing step.
An output step that outputs the result executed in the processing step, and
Have,
In the processing step, if it is determined that the character content to be determined by a specific determination rule is not included in the legal document content, the character content should be described in the legal document content. Therefore, a warning information to encourage the addition of the character content is generated as one aspect of the determination.
Legal document review method.

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