Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-00008, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Williamson, Vanessa (Seneca College), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Colleges, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les collèges, program purpose english : Clausehound has developed a cloud-based, legal document drafting product for small businesses which provides them with a_x000D_
lower-cost alternative to traditional legal providers. While the Clausehound product is currently in the market and generating_x000D_
revenues, improving the accuracy at which information is retrieved from their internally developed legal knowledge repository, and_x000D_
routed to the user for review and drafting, is crucial for the growth of their user (customer) base. In order for Clausehound to_x000D_
become more competitive in the market, they will engage with Seneca College, and in particular, with Dr. Elnaz Delpisheh, to help_x000D_
further advance the companys extraction & retrieval technology. The work proposed in this project will help Clausehound refine_x000D_
and optimize its existing, commercially-available technology by improving (1) the process by which legal text is extracted (e.g._x000D_
legal clauses from word documents) from unstructured and semi-structured documents, and (2) the process by which information_x000D_
is retrieved based on queries submitted by a user (e.g. search string "automatic renewal clause"). This will improve on the current_x000D_
identification accuracy rates and document parsing times, and thereby enhance the marketability of the Clausehound technology_x000D_
platform and support the growth of their business., program purpose french : Clausehound has developed a cloud-based, legal document drafting product for small businesses which provides them with a_x000D_
lower-cost alternative to traditional legal providers. While the Clausehound product is currently in the market and generating_x000D_
revenues, improving the accuracy at which information is retrieved from their internally developed legal knowledge repository, and_x000D_
routed to the user for review and drafting, is crucial for the growth of their user (customer) base. In order for Clausehound to_x000D_
become more competitive in the market, they will engage with Seneca College, and in particular, with Dr. Elnaz Delpisheh, to help_x000D_
further advance the companys extraction & retrieval technology. The work proposed in this project will help Clausehound refine_x000D_
and optimize its existing, commercially-available technology by improving (1) the process by which legal text is extracted (e.g._x000D_
legal clauses from word documents) from unstructured and semi-structured documents, and (2) the process by which information_x000D_
is retrieved based on queries submitted by a user (e.g. search string "automatic renewal clause"). This will improve on the current_x000D_
identification accuracy rates and document parsing times, and thereby enhance the marketability of the Clausehound technology_x000D_
platform and support the growth of their business., agreement title english : Query-based legal information retrieval system, agreement title french : Query-based legal information retrieval system, agreement number : CARD1, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-06-14, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2018-2019), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada