Abstract—A contract is a legally binding agreement between real-world business entities whom we treat as providing services to one another. We focus on business rather than technical services. We think of a business contract as specifying the...Service Exception Contracts • January 1st, 2011
Contract Type FiledJanuary 1st, 2011We describe a simple but effective unsupervised information extraction approach and tool, Enlil, for discovering service exceptions at the phrase level from a large contract repository. Our approach involves preprocessing followed by an application of linguistic patterns and parsing to extract the service exception phrases. Identifying such noun phrases can help build service exception vocabularies that support the development of a taxonomy of business terms, and also facilitate modeling and analyzing service engagements.