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Not that I expect it to succeed, but I wonder what would happen if you tried throwing machine translation at the raw tax code.
by dllthomas 6y ago
Not that I expect it to succeed, but I wonder what would happen if you tried throwing machine translation at the raw tax code.
- bob1029 6y agoWhat if we rewrote the tax code with code? There are many high level languages (especially functional ones) which could address this problem domain really well if we had the courage to start completely over. Imagine a legal document that is written using terminology that is ultimately just a series of higher-order functions. A human could make sense of it with some training, and a computer could directly execute it with determinism.
- spiralx 6y agoLegal documents are already a combination of data values and custom rules, they just also reference external rule sets such as legislation, regulation or case law. I work at a company where we use the same data points to generate the legal documents for a funding round as well as the cap table before and after the round is closed. Term sheets are just a very verbose data file lol.