4 tweets 9 reads Apr 20, 2023
For folks working on AI & law:
"Catala: a Programming Language for the Law"
arxiv.org
"A straightforward and systematic translation of statutory law into an executable implementation"
Gen AI enables generation of Catala from legal text; many implications
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Catala is a programming language to describe legal constructs. That is, you can express content of a legal doc as a Catala code.
Authors apply it to, among others, the US tax code
in doing so, they discover loopholes in the US tax code via formal code analysis techniques
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Generally, I think it's the case that you an underlying data structure (or code) describing a given document is super valuable when automating lawyer work
Bottleneck with Catala is taking real legal texts and translating them. Should be very doable with LLMs.
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Specific things I think this enables within AI x law:
- Analysis of legal docs to spot errors/loopholes
- Document simplification without changing content
- Identification of contradictions
- ... what am I missing?
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