In this week’s meeting, Srishty Saha, Michael Aebig and Jiayong Lin will talk about their work on extracting knowledge from the US FAR System.

Automated Knowledge Extraction from the Federal Acquisition Regulations System

Srishty Saha, Michael Aebig and Jiayong Lin

11am-12pm Monday, 25 September 2017, ITE346, UMBC

The Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS) within the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes facts and rules for individuals and organizations seeking to do business with the US Federal government. Parsing and extracting knowledge from such lengthy regulation documents is currently done manually and is time and human intensive. Hence, developing a cognitive assistant for automated analysis of such legal documents has become a necessity. We are developing a semantically rich legal knowledge base representing legal entities and their relationships, semantically similar terminologies, deontic expressions and cross-referenced legal facts and rules.