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Semantics of Contracts and Clauses

One of the more challenging aspects of digitising contracts (making then computable) is understanding how to assemble a contract from a reusable set of clauses. There is inherent tension between the notion of a clause as an atomic reusable snippet of text, and the assumptions that a clause makes about its host contract, or the other clauses that must be present in the contract.

In this article I dive deeper into what assembling contracts from clauses means in terms of semantics, and sketch out some Concerto data models to capture those semantics.

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Custom Attributes, Properties and Concepts

In my job at DocuSign I provide pragmatic guidance to teams building various “smart” agreement features, which increasingly require a digital (aka computable aka symbolic) representation of knowledge, facts and rules; or what is called Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR). In this article I introduce the high-level concepts and challenges, particularly related to “custom attributes” and machine learning.

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