Project Plan: The Use of NLP and DLT to Enable the Digitalization of Telecom Roaming Agreements

Abstract

The project looks at how to transform the telecom roaming agreements documents and the process of drafting and negotiation into a digitalized version:

1. Build a library that will capture the different variations and variables that constructs a telecom roaming agreement.
2. Build a PoC based on a set of smart contracts that will automate the process of drafting and negotation

Project Deliverables

• A series of medium articles explaining the main project vision, main concepts, and the proposed design approach.
  • Article 1 https://medium.com/@sfl0r3nz05/blockchain-based-digitization-of-the-roaming-agreement-drafting-process-dec003923521
  • Article 2 https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/nlp-engine-to-detect-variables-standard-clauses-variations-and-customized-texts-893ff9f903e5
  • Article 3 https://medium.com/@sfl0r3nz05/chaincode-design-for-managing-the-drafting-of-roaming-agreements-73d3ed1b3645
  • Article 4 https://medium.com/@sfl0r3nz05/chaincode-implementation-for-managing-the-drafting-of-roaming-agreements-d4ec7363a3d0
• NLP model that extracts the main features of the Telecom Agreements Templates as set of variations and variables.
  • Github Repo https://github.com/sfl0r3nz05/NLP-DLT
• A drafting library in JavaScript, packaged and published as an NPM package.
• A Chaincode that automates and maps the business processes of agreements drafting and negotiation.
• Architectural design document of the system.
• A simple UI as PoC that will show the steps of agreement drafting.
• A comprehensive solution document for the project implementation details.
• Publish an academic conference/journal paper the main findings of the project.

Project Milestones

• Project initiation 07 Jun 2021  
  • Finalize the project plan
  • Finalize and agree on deliverables
  • Arrange the project communication plan and set the meetings dates and times
• Study of Roaming Agreement Templates documents structure and the drafting and negotiation process details 21 Jun 2021 
  • Finish training on Roaming Agreements 14 Jun 2021 
  • Submit a summary of learning outcomes and findings 17 Jun 2021 
  • Collect different agreements templates 14 Jun 2021 
  • Submit a document analyzing the roaming agreements documents structure 21 Jun 2021 
• Build NLP Model and Drafting Library 09 Jul 2021 
  • Identify the different approaches of NLP modelling to be evaluated
  • Define the schema of the drafting library 
  • Build the NLP model
  • Documenting the design details
• Chaincode development 13 Aug 2021 
  • Build the drafting process chaincode
  • Build the negotiation process chaincode
  • Build supporting libs for the chaincode (authorization, entity management .. etc)
  • Documenting the design details
• Build Backend system 27 Aug 2021 
  • Build NodeJS backend systems to interact with the chaincode
  • Documenting design details
• System testing 10 Sep 2021 
  • Build the testing environment
  • Test different processes
  • Documenting the results
• Frontend App 15 Oct 2021 
  • Build a simple UI to demonstrate the usage of the system
• Final Project Documents 10 Nov 2021 
  • Solution Design Document
  • A conference or journal paper draft