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Optimizing merchant compliance: A system for product specific rule extraction using NLP.

Atharva Khewalkar1, Anuj Walsepatil1, Ritesh Phadtare1

  • 1Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune, India.

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Summary
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A new system improves access to Indian food safety regulations for e-commerce merchants. It uses web scraping and natural language processing (NLP) to provide accurate, product-specific regulatory information, enhancing compliance and user safety.

Keywords:
ExtractionNatural language processingSegmentationSpacyTime optimizationTokenizationWeb scrapping

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Area of Science:

  • E-commerce and Regulatory Compliance
  • Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
  • Food Safety and Quality Assurance

Background:

  • Product quality and safety are paramount in e-commerce, especially within regulated sectors like the food industry.
  • Government regulations, crucial for user protection, are often difficult to access due to unstructured PDF formats on ministry websites.
  • Merchants face challenges in identifying and adhering to specific Indian food safety rules and amendments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a system that simplifies access to Indian food safety regulations for e-commerce merchants.
  • To enhance user protection by ensuring merchants can easily find and comply with relevant product safety standards.
  • To demonstrate the effectiveness of automated data retrieval and NLP in managing complex regulatory information.

Main Methods:

  • Web scraping techniques were employed to gather scattered regulatory data from various government websites.
  • Automated scripts were utilized for data cleaning and organization, converting unstructured PDFs into a usable text format.
  • Spacy natural language processing (NLP) algorithms were implemented to enable product-specific search capabilities and accurate information retrieval.

Main Results:

  • The system achieved a task accuracy between 82% and 89% over 10 runs in the domain of Indian food safety regulations.
  • The NLP model demonstrated a strong performance with an F-score of 87.17%.
  • The system successfully provides accurate, real-time, and product-specific regulatory data in a structured and easily accessible format.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed system effectively addresses the challenge of accessing unstructured regulatory data, making compliance easier for e-commerce merchants.
  • The integration of web scraping and NLP offers a scalable solution for managing and retrieving information from government repositories.
  • This approach enhances product quality and safety in e-commerce by providing reliable and timely access to essential regulatory information.