Katz, Daniel MWang, HongmingToledo Correa, Pedro Felipe2022-05-2420222022-05-232022Toledo Correa, Pedro Felipe. 2022. Transforming Natural Language Stateless Commercial Contracts into Computer Computable Contracts. Master's thesis, Harvard University Division of Continuing Education.29208279https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37371701Since millennia, contracts have fulfilled a fundamental role to regulate the relation between entities. A contract can be abstracted as an agreement that defines rights and obligations between two or more parties; in this context, the calculation of the resulting rights and obligations, provided the agreement considerations, has fundamentally been a human task given the typical natural language nature of these agreements. This thesis analyses the context in which the outcome of a contract can be computer calculated and the validity of the calculated result, while proposing an algorithmic approach to transform a natural language contract, within the subset of contracts denominated “Stateless Commercial Contracts”, into a computer computable form compatible with tools already available within the legal industry.application/pdfenAccord ProjectCommercial ContractsCumputable ContractingLegal Technology (legaltech)Natural Language Procesing (NLP)Software EngineeringComputer scienceComputer engineeringLawThesis or Dissertation2022-05-240000-0002-3811-3516