1. REGNET Gloria Lau, Shawn Kerrigan, Haoyi Wang, Kincho Law, Gio Wiederhold Stanford University May 14th, 2004 A Software Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance

2. Motivation  Multiple sources of regulations  Multiple jurisdictions: federal, state, local, etc.  Different formats, terminologies, contexts UK DDA in HTMLADAAG in HTML   Amending rules, conflicting ideas IBC in PDF

3. Complexity and Diversity of Regulations ADAAG 4.7.2 Slope. …Transitions from ramps to walks, gutters, or streets shall be flush and free of abrupt changes… CBC 1127B.5.5 Beveled lip. The lower end of each curb ramp shall have a ½ inch (13mm) lip beveled at 45 degrees as a detectable way- finding edge for persons with visual impairments.  Conflict due to differences in the intent of regulations: ADAAG focuses on wheelchair traversal; CBC focuses on the visually impaired when using a cane.

4. Compliance assistance and relatedness analysis based on a regulatory repository  XML regulatory repository with features extracted  Shallow parser to consolidate regulations  HTML, PDF, plain text  XML regulations  Features, references, etc.  Analysis tools to help understanding of regulations and the relationships between them  Compliance checking session  Regulation Assistance System (RAS)  Relatedness analysis  Application on e-rulemaking

5. Development of a Regulatory Repository

6. reference parse tree Feature Extraction in XML … … Assembly areas with fixed seating shall comply …...

7. Regulation Assistance System (RAS)

8. RAS Compliance Checking Session

9. SearchTerms/ Concepts Definitions References Search by Concept Compliance Check Linking Specific Compliance Assistance Domain to RAS Regulations, Supplementary Document and Compliance Results Letter of Interpretation

10. Structural comparisons Related elements: door and entrance Relatedness analysis ADAAG 4.1.6(3)(d) Doors (i) Where it is technically infeasible to comply with clear opening width requirements of 4.13.5, a projection... UFAS 4.14.1 Minimum Number Entrances required to be accessible by 4.1 shall be part of an accessible route and shall comply with...

11. Application on E-Rulemaking Drafted regulations compared with public comments

12. Results from E-Rulemaking Application