Intro paragraph: Contracts are always written in a very cryptic manner. So what do they say in short, plain old Dutch?
Status of the project: beta. I've "translated" 2 out of 38 paragraphs from one contract I've received, and that was a lot of work already. Those paragraphs work fine now, but it still needs a lot more work.
No, no, it's nothing like that. It's just a small Javascript thingy that tries to convert legal nonsense into sense. I got a contract in Dutch that I found took way longer to read than it should (like, really read and understand all implications), made this script and threw it online. It's in a directory with dozens of unfinished scripts that I wrote.
So yes, summaries are generated programmatically. They have no legal value but provide a much better read of what is written in the contract.
Simple text replacement. I'm sorry if I just shattered the mental picture of some high-tech language processing, but this pretty crude method that just gets the job done :P
Quick translation of the text on the page:
Title: And now in plain Dutch
Intro paragraph: Contracts are always written in a very cryptic manner. So what do they say in short, plain old Dutch?
Status of the project: beta. I've "translated" 2 out of 38 paragraphs from one contract I've received, and that was a lot of work already. Those paragraphs work fine now, but it still needs a lot more work.