Mapping regulations to industry-specific taxonomies

Abstract

For each industry, there exist many taxonomies that are intended for various applications. There are also multiple sources of regulations from different government agencies. Industry practitioners, unlike legal practitioners, are familiar with one or more industry-specific taxonomies but not necessarily regulatory organization systems. To help browsing of regulations by industry practitioners, we propose to map regulations to existing industry-specific taxonomies.A mapping from a single taxonomy to a single regulation is a trivial keyword matching task.From there, we examine techniques to map a single taxonomy to multiple regulations, as well as to map multiple taxonomies to a single regulation. Cosine similarity, Jaccard coefficient and market-basket analysis are tested to model the similarity metric between concepts from different taxonomies. Preliminary evaluations of the three metrics are performed. Examples from the building industry are drawn to illustrate the betterment of regulatory usage from the mapping between various taxonomies and regulations.

Regulation retrieval using industry specific taxonomies

“…Section 2 briefly discusses the typical features of industry taxonomies and regulations considered in this study. Sections 3 and 4 review the techniques for mapping a single taxonomy to one or multiple regulations (Cheng et al 2007(Cheng et al , 2008a. Linking one taxonomy to one regulation is a trivial keyword extraction and latching task.…”